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Many Paths To The Top Of The Mountain
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It’s A Plant World, We’re Just Living In It
Biology concepts – cell walls, chloroplasts, myco-heterotrophs, holoparasites, Life on Earth is easy. It can be boiled down to three sentences. “The mitochondria and the chloroplasts are, in a...
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The Life Of The Party
Biology concepts – plant adaptations, osmosis, parthenogenesisLast week we discussed the biological implications of an old Christmas carol. Today’s post is a hodgepodge of holiday biology, but we can...
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When Is A Chloroplast Not A Chloroplast?
Biology concepts – gravitropism, plastid, chloroplast, chromoplast, amyloplast, leucoplast, malaria parasiteBelieve it or not, the way plant roots know to grow into the dirt is related to...
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Every Day Should Be Mother’s Day
Biology concepts – inheritance patterns, mitochondria, fertilization, lineage, mitochondrial EveWhat do the “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, Mother’s Day, and all your mitochondria all have in...
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The Seeds of Inheritance
Biology Concepts – pollen, plastid inheritance, gymnosperms, angiospermsI am coming to believe that plants are more complex than animals, even more complex than females. Female plants must be the most...
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Biological Fusion Energy
Biology Concepts – mitochondrial dynamics Stars are the largest fusion reactors around, and organisms do use some of the energy our Sun produces by joining two hydrogen atoms into a helium atom -...
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Cellular Self-Sacrifice
Biology Concepts – apoptosis, synthaesthesia, mitochondria We often ascribe human traits to objects that do not have thoughts or feelings of their own. This is called anthropomorphism, and it is hard...
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