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- the creosote bush order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, consisting of 2 families (Zygophyllaceae and Krameriaceae), ...
- zygosphene
- (from the article "snake") ...(prezygapophyses and postzygapophyses) from the centra, with articulating surfaces that lie above and below; and ...
- zygospore
- (from the article "algae") In freshwater organisms especially, the fertilized egg, or zygote, often passes into a dormant state ...
- zygote
- (from the article "development") ...of the diploid parents; gametes from the two parents immediately reunite to form a diploid ...
- Zyklon-B
- (from the article "Holocaust") ...camps, the Nazis used mobile gas vans. Elsewhere, they built permanent gas chambers linked to ...
- zymogen
- any of a group of proteins that display no catalytic activity but are transformed within ... [1 Related Articles]
- zymogenic cell
- (from the article "gastric gland") The intermediate gastric glands produce most of the digestive substances secreted by the stomach. These ...
- Zyryan
- city, eastern Kazakhstan, on the Beryozovka River in the southern Altai Mountains. Zyryan is an ...
- Zyuganov, Gennady Andreyevich
- Of the independent nations that emerged after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia had ... [1 Related Articles]
- Zywiec
- town, Slaskie wojewodztwo (province), south-central Poland, in the Carpathian Mountains on the ...
- Zywny, Wojciech Adalbert
- (from the article "Chopin, Frederic") ...mother or eldest sister playing the piano. By six he was already trying to reproduce ...
- ZZ Top
- (from the article "MTV") ...wave icons Duran Duran, who used increasingly sophisticated techniques to make the visual elements of ...
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