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Tuesday 10 April 2012

Flowering Bamboo


                         

After 40 years the bamboo plants bear flowers and they died after flowering.This is because the lack of environmental impact on the time of flowering indicates the presence of some sort of “alarm clock” in each cell of the plant which signals the diversion of all energy to flower production and the cessation of vegetative growth.

Sunday 8 April 2012

AARDVARK

Aardvark is a  animal from southern america that has a long nose and tounge that eats insects..
The name aardvark comes from a word meaning "earth pig." Although the aardvark, endemic to Africa, shares some similarities with the South American anteater, the two are not related. The last survivor of a group of primitive ungulates, the aardvark could more accurately be called a near-ungulate that has developed powerful claws.



Saturday 7 April 2012

Transparent Frog



A research team crystal rectifier by prof Masayuki Sumida at urban center University's Institute for Amphibian Biology has created a kind of clear frog whose internal organs square measure visible through its skin. The researchers say the transparent frogs will facilitate within the study of diseases and within the development of medical treatments by permitting laboratory scientists to envision the standing of internal organs and blood vessels whereas the frogs square measure alive and while not having to dissect them.According to Sumida, the clear frog is that the results of breeding 2 specimens of Japanese brown frog (Rana japonica) that had a chromosomal mutation giving them pale skin. By by selection breeding their offspring, the researchers were ready to produce a frog that is still clear for its entire life cycle. Most of the world's celebrated clear creatures live underwater, and clear four-legged animals square measure very rare.The researchers conjointly say that by fusing the genes of fluorescent proteins to the frog's genes, they'll produce frogs that glow. Glowing frogs will facilitate scientists study specific "problem" genes by providing a period of time visual indication (i.e. the frogs glow) once those genes become active.