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• n  (biology) a taxonomic group ranking below an order but above a family

• In China, anything resembling nationhood was understood only in terms of a kind of superfamily, with the Emperor as the patriarch.
• In China, anything resembling nationhood was understood only in terms of a kind of superfamily, with the Emperor as the patriarch.

News & Articles

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• Study Of Olfaction In Fruit-Eating Bats Could Shed Light On Our Own Sense Of Smell
  Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online While scientists know that a superfamily of genes inside olfactory receptors is responsible for our sense of smell – we still don’t know the mechanism behind the interpretation of odor molecules into a particular smell. A new study published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution has found a distinct gene pattern in the olfactory ...
  March 4, 2014 - redOrbit