They also demonstrated total or partial inversions even sometimes affecting the order of the words in a sentence.
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As in Esperanto, extensive compounding keeps the number of roots low; cf . " simpatu " " sympathise " and its partial inversion " mispatu " " be hostile ".
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Gonium represents the first six evolutionary steps of multicellularity; ( 1 ) incomplete cytokinesis, ( 2 ) partial inversion, ( 3 ) rotation of the basal bodies, ( 4 ) organismal polarity, ( 5 ) transformation of the cell wall into extra-cellular matrix ( ECM ), ( 6 ) genetic control of cell number.