a: The pancreas ~
b: a tree
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"The pancreas is like a tree, where the ducts are the branches, and the islets [of Langerhans] are like bird's nests," she says. "They don't communicate with the tree itself, but they have to have a tree to live." Those bird's nests, and the insulin-producing beta cells within them, are crucial to human health - when beta cells go awry, diabetes results."
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Writer: Bridget Wagner
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Date: Dec 29 2013 2:01 PM
# 4498 Critique Analogy