Word: cygnet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early, or stays on just a touch longer, can make a dramatic difference in the formation of the embryo. Swans, for example, have more neck vertebrae than chickens and thus longer necks. That is because the Hox genes responsible for making neck bones stay on longer in the unhatched cygnet than in the unhatched chick...