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yolk 1. the substance in an animal ovum consisting of protein and fat that nourishes the developing embryo 2. a greasy substance secreted by the skin of a sheep and present in the fleece yolk [yōk] (biochemistry) Nutritive material stored in an ovum. The yellow spherical mass of food material that makes up the central portion of the egg of a bird or reptile. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Regardless of the amount of Se fed to lizards, females partitioned approximately 33% of their total Se burden to ovaries, most of which had produced enlarged, yolked follicles at the time they were examined. Third child and only son of a Nez Perce and Osage father and a white mother, Penn spends the first part of this book, and, it seems, the greater part of forty years, making sense of the intensely conflicting world views and histories uneasily yolked together by his parents' union. Part of a uniquely Soviet organization that yolked it to Poland's postal service until its privatization in 1991, it now contributes 40 percent of the Warsaw Stock Exchange's total market cap, and leads the country's public companies in profitability despite being No. |
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