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You are given a sentence and your task is to generate another sentence that supports the given input.
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Nematoda (roundworms or nematodes), a phylum of elongated cylindrical, smooth-skinned, unsegmented worms, both aquatic and terrestrial, parasitic in animals or plants or free-living in soil or water;
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Nematodes can be a parasite of both.

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Solids are in a state of matter that maintains a fixed volume and shape.
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A definite shape and a definite volume are properties of the solid, only state(s) of matter.

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The carbon atoms in these chains and rings can then form bonds with other elements in many ways to produce various functional groups.
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Carbon (c) is essential to living organisms because carbon bonds in many ways with itself to form chains.