(Original text : These web pages are for academic teaching purposes only and contain copyrighted materials from the Biology textbooks used for the courses I teach at the University of Miami. The views and opinions expressed on these course-subject linked-home pages are strictly those of the author, Charles H. Mallery, a faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami. These web pages are equivalent to personal home pages and provide an academic class room forum for the self expression of the instructor, Charles H. Mallery. The contents of these pages may include academic subjects, as well as interesting stylistic presentations of class subject material. Although the contents of these linked pages are not in any way an official publication of the University of Miami, we hope that the educational information in them will be useful to students.

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