The authors found that the muci produced by a coral, a mussel, and a clam were chemically very similar, indicating inheritance from a common ancestor earlier in the Precambrian. The mucus produced by invertebrates has a number of known functions.

The fees , or allowances , that are termly given to these deputies , receiver , and clerks , for recompence of these their pains , I do purposely pretermit ; because they be not certain , but arbitrary

I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme.

“Most comedy writers are tall, jocky types,” said Bill Lawrence, the creator of “Scrubs.”