Assertion: arthropod's exoskeleton | /r/HasProperty | shed
Facets:
value: periodically
type: TEMPORAL
value: during molting
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The chitinous exoskeleton is shed periodically, allowing the growth of the body.
text: For the animal to grow, the exoskeleton had to be shed, and shed trilobite exoskeletons, or portions of them, are fossils that are relatively common.
text: Therefore, growth is periodic and concentrated into a period of time when the exoskeleton is shed, called moulting or ecdysis, which is under the control of a hormone called ecdysone.
text: Before the old exoskeleton is shed, the cuticle separates from the epidermis through a process called apolysis.
text: During molting, a soft exoskeleton forms underneath the old one and the old exoskeleton is shed.
text: The exoskeleton limits an organism's ability to grow in size and must be periodically shed (molted) as the organism grows.
text: Arachnids have an exoskeleton that must be shed periodically for the animal to grow.