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Why Do Sunflowers Always Face The Sun?
Table of Contents (click to expand)HeliotropismHow Do Sunflowers Face The Sun?Why Do Sunflowers Face The Sun? When the sun starts moving from east to west in the sky, the east side of the stem of a...
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How Are Mushrooms More Similar To Humans Than Plants?
Table of Contents (click to expand)The Classification Of Living OrganismsUsing Similarities In DNA To Classify OrganismsThe Mushrooms And Men Have Similar DNA. As it turns out, animals and fungi share...
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Why Do Touch-Me-Not (Mimosa Pudica) Leaves Close When Touched?
Table of Contents (click to expand)The Mimosa pudica Shows ThigmonastyMimosa pudica‘s Leaves Bend Due To A Change In Turgor Pressure Of Its CellsMimosa pudica Folds Its Leaves As A Predator Avoidance...
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Do Plants And Trees Sleep?
Table of Contents (click to expand)Research People cherish sleep the most because it is what keeps us alive. People sleep at night, while dogs and cats doze whenever they can. Plants also work on a...
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How Do Plants Defend Themselves?
Table of Contents (click to expand)The Quiet Intelligence Of PlantsPhysical DefensesChemical DefensesSocial Defenses Plants have evolved many ways to defend themselves from being eaten. They can have...
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Why Does Over-Watering Kill Plants?
Table of Contents (click to expand)Why Does Over-watering Kills Plants?How To Avoid Over-watering Of Plants? Over-watering a plant can severely limit the supply of oxygen that roots need to function...
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Can Plants Hear, Smell, See, Touch Or Taste Stuff?
Table of Contents (click to expand)HearingSmellSightTouchTaste Plants can feel the presence of predators and take necessary action. In doing so, they exhibit some behavior that is eerily similar to...
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How Do Seeds Know That They Have To Grow Upwards Against Gravity?
Table of Contents (click to expand)How Do Seeds Figure Out The Effect Of Gravity And Grow In The Right Direction?What Is Gravitropism?Thomas Andrew Knight Demonstrated Gravitropism With An Interesting...
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How To Calculate The Age Of A Tree?
Table of Contents (click to expand)The Science Of Growth RingsMethods Of Calculating A Tree’s Age An increment borer is a tool that can be drilled into the center of a tree, about 20% past the center...
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Why Are Some Plants Carnivorous?
Table of Contents (click to expand)The Most Coveted Need: NutritionThe Manipulation Of Biological MechanismsThe First Mechanism: The TrapThe Second Mechanism: Digestion Carnivorous plants have evolved...
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How Do Plants Excrete?
Table of Contents (click to expand)How Do Plants Excrete?Transpiration And Other Excreta Plants excrete through stomatal pores on their leaves. The major metabolic reactions occurring in a plant that...
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The Manchineel Tree: How Even Standing Near The ‘World’s Most Dangerous Tree’...
Table of Contents (click to expand)The ‘Tree Of Death’Is The Toxicity An Evolutionary Misstep?Not So Bad After All The Manchineel Tree is the world’s most dangerous tree according to the Guinness Book...
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Why Does Wood Have Knots?
Table of Contents (click to expand)What Are Knots?How Are Knots Formed On Tree Trunks?Effects Of Knots Knots in wood are formed when branches are broken off or cut, and the exposed wood is left behind....
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What If Our Body Could Make Food Like Plants Do Using Sunlight?
Table of Contents (click to expand)ChlorophyllA Green Green WorldNew Adaptations And A Change In LifestyleWhy Is This Impossible?Photosynthesizing Creatures: Organisms That Can Prepare Their Own Food...
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How Do Plants Reproduce?
Table of Contents (click to expand)Sexual ReproductionAsexual Reproduction Plants reproduce sexually through the fusion of male and female gametes in the flower. Asexual reproduction is through stems,...
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How Does A Seed Grow Into A Tree?
Table of Contents (click to expand)Anatomy Of A SeedGermination And Its RequirementsHow Does The Seed Get Food Before The Leaves Appear?Seed DormancyWhy Do Some Seeds Take Longer Than Others To...
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Is Corn A Vegetable?
Table of Contents (click to expand)What Is A Fruit, Vegetable And Grain?Corn: The Unclassifiable CropA Final Word Corn is a vegetable, but that isn’t the whole story, as different parts of this popular...
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Do Plants Hold The Soil Or Is It The Other Way Round?
Table of Contents (click to expand)Shoot And Root Systems Of A PlantHow Does A Plant Hold Soil?How Does The Soil Hold The Plants?Conclusion Plants hold the soil and the soil holds plants. As such, they...
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Do Plants Feel Stress?
Table of Contents (click to expand)Plants In NatureStress Response In PlantsA Final Word Plants do feel stress from the environment and other activities, but their response to such stimuli is very...
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How Do Plants Live For Hundreds Of Years?
Table of Contents (click to expand)What Does Aging Mean For A Tree?1. Plants Grow Slowly2. Plants Can Regrow Lost Parts3. Plants Can Pause Their Growth When Conditions Are Unfavorable Some trees can...
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Can You Grow Plants In Artificial Light?
Table of Contents (click to expand)What Do Plants Need To Grow?Sunlight Vs. Artificial LightArtificial Light That Helps Plants Grow IndoorsImpact Of Artificial Light On PlantsConclusion Plants can grow...
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How Do Plants Affect Our Wellbeing?
Table of Contents (click to expand)Plants Can Act As Air Purifiers And Air CoolersPlants As Air Coolers And HumidifiersPlants Help Reduce StressPlants Help Boost Cognitive Ability And CreativityRole Of...
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Bathtub Farming: Can You Grow Plants Using Only Water, Without Soil?
Table of Contents (click to expand)What Is Hydroponics?Bathroom Farming: How Can You Implement Hydroponics In Your Home?Advantages Of Hydroponics: How Is It Better Than Traditional Farming?Commercial...
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How Does The Dodder Plant Steal Genes From Host Plants?
Table of Contents (click to expand)What Is The Dodder Plant?How Does A Dodder Plant Steal Genes?Significance Of The Stolen Genes In DodderConclusion The dodder plant steals genes from host plants by...
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Can Plants Hear?
Table of Contents (click to expand)What Is Sound?Can Plants Perceive Sounds?Plants Do Not Have Ears, So How Can They Hear?Conclusion Though plants do not have ears like most animals, they can respond...
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Why Are Sunflowers Planted In The Shadow Of Nuclear Disasters?
Table of Contents (click to expand)Phytoremediatiation At ChernobylCleaning Up With Sunflowers: The HyperaccumulatorSunflowers In Fukushima Sunflowers can take up high concentrations of radioactive...
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How Do Some Common Insectivorous Plants Work?
Table of Contents (click to expand)The Pitcher Plant: NepenthesThe Bladderwort: UtriculariaThe Sundew Plant: Drosera Insectivorous plants trap insects and other smaller animals to derive nutrition for...
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Why Is A Banana Tree Not Really A Tree?
Table of Contents (click to expand)Why Can’t We Call A Banana Tree A Tree?Banana Vs. TreeThe Banana Plant Is One Of The Biggest Non-treesConclusion What you call a tree, isn’t actually a tree, but an...
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Why Are Algae Called Plants Of Different Colors?
Table of Contents (click to expand)Algae, The First PlantsAlgae Exist As A Rainbow Of ColorsWhy Do Terrestrial Algae/green Plants Appear Green?So Why Do Some Algae Come In Other Colors?Algae In All Its...
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Why Are Pitcher Plants Eating Shrew Poop?
Table of Contents (click to expand)How Do Plants Meet Their Nitrogen Requirements?How Did Researchers Figure Out The Shrew-pitcher Plant Relationship?Conclusion Shrew, a tiny mole-like animal, has been...
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How Will Algae Be Useful To Us In The Future?
Table of Contents (click to expand)What Are Algae?How We Use Algae TodayAlgae As FuelAlgae As FoodAlgae As MedicineConclusion Researchers are experimenting with algae as a sustainable fuel source, such...
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Can Bees Get Drunk?
Table of Contents (click to expand)When Flowers Turn Into MicrobreweriesWhat Effect Does Booze Have On Bees?No Drinking And BuzzingA Final Word Did you know that a honey bee can be an expert at holding...
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What Is A Corpse Lily And Why Is It The Largest, Stinkiest Flower In The World?
Table of Contents (click to expand)Why Is Rafflesia arnoldii So Special?Why Is It So Stinky?Do These Plants Steal DNA?A Final Word Rafflesia is the largest flower in the world, weighing around 7 kg,...
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How Do Plants Know When To Produce Fruit?
Table of Contents (click to expand)The Function Of Fruits In PlantsFertilizationGenetic Factors That Control FruitingHormones In Fruit ProductionThe Unfertilized FruitsConclusion Until fertilization,...
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Why Don’t All Bisexual Plants Produce Self-Fertilized Fruits?
Table of Contents (click to expand)Why Avoid Self-fertilization?Types Of Self-incompatibilityMechanism Of Pollen RejectionMale SterilityConclusion Most bisexual plants have mechanisms that prevent...
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Why Did Chili Plants Evolve To Grow Spicy Fruits?
Table of Contents (click to expand)What Is Capsaicin?Benefits Of Hot Chili FruitsHow Are Chili Seeds Dispersed?Conclusion Capsaicin is what makes chilies spicy. Chili plants seemed to have evolved to...
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What Exactly Is A Flower Bulb, And How Does It Differ From A Flower Seed?
Table of Contents (click to expand)Components Of A Flower BulbComponents Of A SeedFlower Bulbs Vs. SeedsNot-so-true Bulbs!Conclusion A flower bulb is an underground modification of certain plants to...
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How Do Climbing Plants Know Where To Climb?
Table of Contents (click to expand)How Do Vines And Creepers Find Support? Do They Know What They’re Climbing On? Conclusion Tendrils are sensitive to touch. More formally, tendrils exhibit...
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Is A Peach A Fuzzy Nectarine?
Table of Contents (click to expand)What Are Those Tiny Hairs On Peaches?How Is Fuzziness Determined?Conclusion Even though they’re sold as different fruits with different names, peaches and nectarines...
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What Is The Difference Between Green Cabbage And Iceberg Lettuce?
Table of Contents (click to expand)Know Thy VegetablesHow Can We Tell Them Apart?Other Ways They Are DifferentConclusion Despite looking similar, cabbage and lettuce are different vegetables that serve...
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What Makes Apple Trees Weep?
Table of Contents (click to expand)Weeping Trait In Apples“Designing” Weeping Apple TreesHow Did They Determine The Function Of The Weeping Gene?Conclusion Apple tree weeping is a phenomenon when...
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How Do Plants “Know” When To Flower?’
Table of Contents (click to expand)Day LengthQuality Of LightHormones Cold Temperatures (Vernalization)Autonomous PathwayAll Roads Lead To Two Integrator Genes Flowers of many plants only bloom in...
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How Does A Fruit Find Its Dad?
Table of Contents (click to expand)How Is A Paternity Analysis Done?Why Does The Plant Need To Find A Pollen Donor? And Why Do We Need To Know Which Plant That Is?Conclusion Plant breeders and fruit...
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Where Does The Calvin Cycle Occur?
Table of Contents (click to expand)PhotosynthesisThe Calvin CycleA Final Word The Calvin Cycle occurs in the stroma of a chloroplast in a plant cell. The stroma is the colorless fluid that surrounds...
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What Are Single-Cell Proteins? Can We Consume Them?
Table of Contents (click to expand)What Are Single-cell Proteins (SCP)?How Are Single-cell Proteins Produced?How Are SCP Produced?Is SCP Better Than Conventionally Used Proteins?What Are Its...
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Are Kale And Cabbage The Same Plant?
Table of Contents (click to expand)The Many Forms Of Wild MustardNatural Selection Vs Artificial SelectionNewer Brassica Oleracea Varieties Conclusion Kale and cabbage are the same plant. A wild...
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