Web making in spiders

Spiders make silk in a special part of their body called a gland and use their legs to pull it out of their bodies. This is called spinning.

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#Id: 9279

#XL - Q Biochemistry

The binding of Nod factors to the Nod factor receptors (NFRs), which contain extracellular LysM motifs, initiates an interaction with the conserved SYMRK receptor-like kinases containing a leucine-rich repeat (LRR) domain.

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 9851

#XL - R Botany

Both phytochromes and cryptochromes entrain the circadian clock in Arabidopsis.

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#Id: 9292

#XL - R Botany

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#Id: 8755

#XL - T Zoology

Thermodynamic measurements indicate that native proteins are only marginally stable under physiological conditions. The free energy required to denature them is ∼0.4 kJ ∙ mol−1 per amino acid residue.

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 8120

#XL - T Zoology

Arachidonic acid and some eicosanoid derivatives.