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Pufferfish Defense * - find out how pufferfish scare their enemies away and check out some pictures. A pufferfish scares away its enemies by gulping down water and inflating itself to appear much larger. The porcupine fish, a close relative of the pufferfish, has many prickly s...
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Common Pufferfish - One of the few freshwater puffers, the common pufferfish has a rotund body, attractively colored with green and patches of yellow. When threatened, it inflates its body with water until it is virtually globular, but it does not have skin spines.
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Pufferfish * - read about different kinds of pufferfish or blowfish, from AquaLink. These are a very peculiar group of fish. These odd looking creatures swim in a rowing fashion. The Porcupines and Puffers are strong, tube shaped fish which becomes thinner towards the d...
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Puffers Defences * - learn how this fish puffs up, and find out exactly how poisonous it is. The name Pufferfish comes from a puffers ability to inflate its body. To what degree they can do this depends on the species. This ability has evolved as a defence mechanism and a pu...
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Human Genome Research - The U.S. Human Genome Project (HGP), composed of the DOE and NIH Human Genome Programs, is the national coordinated effort to characterize all human genetic material by determining the complete sequence of the DNA in the human genome.
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