1.【动】脊椎动物
1.有脊骨[脊椎]的;脊椎动物的
2.(作品等)结构严密的
1.an animal with a backbone, for example a mammal, a bird, or a fish
1.How much do vertebrates depend on the innate immune system to fight infection?
脊椎动物有多麽依赖与生俱来的免疫系统去对抗感染呢？
2.In vertebrates, polyploidy tends to be lethal, but plants can do just fine with all this extra genetic material.
脊椎动物中，多倍体往往是致死的，而多倍体植物却可以很好的存活。
3.It kills small vertebrates, including venomous snakes, by crushing with its jaws and the weight of its coils, but is not a constrictor.
以小型脊椎动物（包括毒蛇）为食。取食方法为用上下颚咬死或将身体盘起来压死猎物，而不靠身体的缢缩。
4."But among vertebrates - there's no animal of any sort that has anything like a limb modified as a club, " noted Dr Longrich.
不过，朗里奇博士称在脊椎动物世界中，未发现哪种动物的肢体会演变为棍棒式武器。
5.In vertebrates this protein is found in retinal cells, where it transduces the energy of light into a nerve signal to the brain.
在脊椎动物中这个蛋白主要存在于视网膜细胞中，在那里它将光能转化为传入大脑的神经信号。
6.The deepest dwelling vertebrates on Earth, snailfish have been discovered in ocean trenches in other parts of the Pacific.
狮子鱼是一种居住在地球最深处的脊椎动物，太平洋其他地方的海沟也发现过它的身影。
7.any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines.
多种寄生在脊椎动物体内的蠕虫，其能够伸缩的长鼻子上覆有许多钩状的刺。
8.Until the mid-1980s, researchers thought warm-blooded vertebrates, including humans, weren't able to regenerate hair cells.
上世纪80年代中期以前，研究人员认为毛细胞无法在包括人类在内的温血脊椎动物的体内再生。
9.In vertebrates, neural control of this system is funneled through the hypothalamus to the anterior and posterior pituitary gland.
在脊椎动物，神经网络控制这个系统是通过下丘脑漏斗状的前，后脑垂体。
10.Members of two animal groups, arthropods and vertebrates, are capable of sound reception.
有两个动物门的成员可以接收声音，节肢动物与脊椎动物。