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comb jelly

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noun

  1. any marine invertebrate of the phylum Ctenophora, comprising various nearly transparent creatures having rounded, oval, or band-shaped bodies propelled by eight iridescent appendages composed of cilia arranged like teeth on a comb.


comb jelly

noun

  1. another name for a ctenophore
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comb jelly

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Origin of comb jelly1

First recorded in 1885–90
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To test whether this comb jelly was actually two individuals who had fused together, the scientists tested individual ctenophores collected at different sites on separate dates.

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So, the outcomes of future technological evolution could surpass humans by as much as we intellectually surpass a comb jelly.

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Recently, Maike Kittelmann, a cell biologist at Oxford Brookes University, and her colleagues froze comb jelly larvae so that they could get a microscopic look at their nervous system.

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Because they do everything so differently, studying comb jelly biology could help find creative solutions to human biological problems.

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Venus’s girdle, a species of comb jelly, or ctenophore.

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