Sentences with phrase «internal skeleton structure»

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Some proteins give an organism's body its structure, whether in the cell's internal skeleton or in a strand of hair.

Marine sponges build intricate skeletons with an internal structure made of glass needles by using enzymes known as silicateins that act both as catalysts that assemble the glass and as physical templates to form the material into needle shapes.

Some squids have a fairly hard internal skeleton, the cuttlebone familiar to parakeet owners, while others have a much smaller structure called a pen.