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  • Name three horror movies that tramatized u as a kid? the shining - that lil boy sees the twin girls orca the killerwhale - a man looks down the sihp and the killerwhale just jumps up at him and eat him If you've seen the movie Finding Neverland, can you please help me?

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • That is, if it indeed should turn out that the killerwhale dorsal fin, for example, is yet another expression or deployment of this “same” set of genes (even though the fin itself would again not be directly homologous with the midline fins of fish), then what upstream (?) regulatory elements have allowed that novel deployment in relatively recent times, but somehow suppressed it (and all other novel extrusions in novel locations) for lo these many eras.

    Evolution of median fins - The Panda's Thumb 2006

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