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10 Ways of Looking at Cells

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Nazi Germany, Nazi SS troops marching with victory standards at the Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany, 1933. (Schutzstaffel, Nazi Party, Nurnberg)

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Bog body. Head of Tollund Man. Died at about age 30-40, Dated to about 280 BCE early Iron Age. Found Bjaeldskovdal bog Denmark in 1950 near Elling Woman. Most well preserved bog body to date. Human remains mummified in natural peat bogs. mummy, embalm

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animal behaviour
biological malformation
- In malformation
programmed cell death
- In death: Cell death

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: Kheper.net - Ontogeny.	Yamini Chauhan	Nov 10, 2010
	New article added.	John P. Rafferty	Mar 04, 2009