Sentence examples for rudimentary organs from inspiring English sources
Darwin himself looked beyond biology, noting the similarity between the search for the origin of words in historical linguistics and the origin of particular features of living organisms: "Rudimentary organs may be compared with the letters in a word, still retained in the spelling, but become useless in the pronunciation, but which serve as a clue in seeking for its derivation" (1859: 456).
By then, the embryonic pig is only half an inch long, though that's developed enough to check if human cells are contributing to its rudimentary organs.
Rudimentary organs, on the other hand, are essentially useless, as teeth which never cut through the gums…" (1859: 452).
In his unpublished sketch of 1844, Darwin said of "abortive or rudimentary organs" that "On the ordinary view of individual creations, I think that scarcely any class of facts in natural history are more wonderful or less capable of receiving explanation" (Darwin 1909a, b: 233).
The unisexual flowers of wild grapevine produce rudimentary organs of the opposite sex.
The most familiar rudimentary organ in humans is the vermiform appendix.
Two pipes were to be removed from the rudimentary organ (which is being built as the piece goes on, with pipes added and subtracted as needed), eliminating a pair of E's.
The process of organ formation is initiated during the early stages of embryonic development, and different rudimentary organ systems are formed and grow during unique developmental windows (Zorn and Wells 2009).
Furthermore, iPSCs can be differentiated to form three-dimensional organoids resembling rudimentary forms of organs, to facilitate the study of whole organ pathology in vitro (Box 1).
In the chordate line, animals possessing very rudimentary light-sensing organs evolved into early vertebrates possessing sophisticated eyes quite similar to our own.
The visible effect is that the germinal layers become further subdivided into aggregations of cells that assume the rudimentary form of various organs and organ systems of the embryo.
