Venus flytraps eating plants
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Introduction / Purpose: I wanted to do this project because I wanted to learn about how Venus flytraps catch their food
Hypothesis / Questions: My question is, “How do Venus flytraps catch their food?” My hypothesis was, “I thought the Venus flytraps grabbed their food and swallowed it.”
Materials: Venus-flytrap, bug
Procedure: First I [...]
Biologists awaken dormant viruses in the heart of our cell
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Viruses sometimes alumni hundreds of millions of years have colonized our DNA. A team of EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) have discovered how our bodies neutralizes these squatters. A breakthrough in understanding the evolution of species, which could also pave the way for new therapies against AIDS.
About half of our DNA does not [...]
Cricket Chirps in the Dark While Music is Being Played
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INTRODUCTION:
I did this project to see if different types of music affects the amount of cricket chirps in a six minute time period
New brochure from the DFG on green biotechnology
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Agency resources for German Research (DFG) has published a new booklet on green biotechnology. Plant genetics is indeed a major research area in biotechnology, it is also a source of great controversy among the public and politicians because this technique is no longer employed at the stage of basic research, but was gradually extended to [...]
Super ornamental plants to clean indoor air
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Stanley Kays, DS Yang and SV Pennisi University of Georgia have tested thirty ornamental plants to identify those most effective to clean the air. The winners of these qualifiers are ivy (Hedera Helix),
Potatoes are carnivores
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The publication of an article in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society (Murderous Plants: Victorian Gothic, Darwin and modern insights into vegetable carnivory) is an opportunity to reconsider the
7 tips for protecting your garden
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The placement of a veil of winter can protect plants little rustic and exotic (bougainvillea, banana, geranium, camellia …) against the cold winds and frosts at night. Directed polypropylene flexible, it is light and transparent and let the plant breathe without damage.
A chameleon plant invented camouflage
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Matthew Klooster and his team of Harvard University, focused, in both senses of the word, on this small (3 to 6 cm tall) flower of the heath family, like the heather. The bracts Monotropsis odorata, floral parts of the inflorescence usually with the appearance of a leaf, hiding its
Identification of a cellular mechanism for combating the herpes virus
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Researchers at the University of Montreal in collaboration with the University of Washington and University of Pennsylvania, have discovered a process that stimulates the cellular immune system against the herpes simplex virus 1. Their work, published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Immunology, showed that in certain circumstances, [...]
Chimera (chimaera)
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An organism which contains cells or tissues with a different genotype. This can result from mutated cells within the developing embryo of a single organism. It can also result from mixing cells from different individuals of the same species, or of individuals from different species. Fusion of embryos or insertion of cells from one embryo [...]
