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Origins of agriculture
China. Some plants which produced poisonous compounds were domesticated from mutant individuals which lacked the poison. Wild relatives of almonds, potatoes, aubegines, watermelons, cabbages ... , peaches, apricots, apples, grapes and cherries occurred when humans selected and bred mutant plants.. These plants became self-compatible hermaphrodites which could pollinate themselves. These ...
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The daily grind in a society mentally ill
With this scientific approach we can further dispense with the blaming of individuals and personalities, who unfortunately may have gotten poisoned by the culture and cannot easily act ... the orchard it must be cut and burned. In the case of modern society, its mutant fruits have been monsters of great harm, such as national war machines of aggression and ...
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Tiger Colours -- The albino tiger.
Were they complete or partial albinos? Perhaps they were simply a mutant gene? Those issues have now been clarified and it is known that white tigers are ... result being the skin and hair are abnormally white or milky. As a consequence these individuals and animals sunburn very easily. Contrary to popular belief, the iris of the eye is ...
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MUTANT CHEETAHS
LINK EXCHANGE CHEETAH MUTANTS The king cheetah is a mutant form of cheetah. This may be a form of abundism where spots coalesce into ... cheetah was not resolved until researchers noticed that some cheetah litters contained both striped individuals and spotted individuals. The darker patten may give better camouflage in less open territory and it has ...
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MUTANT PUMAS
MUTANT PUMAS MUTANT PUMAS Mutants are natural variations which occur due to spontaneous genetic changes or the expression ... EXCHANGE PUMA MUTATIONS The Puma is normally tawny in colour. Melanistic, leucistic, albino and grey individuals have been reported. Guggisberg reports that pumas have both red and grey colour phases. The ...
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International News on Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - 1999/10/16
GM crops have reached the lucrative cosmetics industry. Soya and maize - the main mutant plants licensed for use in food - are also used in a huge number of beauty ... Bt can provoke immunological changes indicative of a developing allergy. With long-term exposure, affected individuals might develop asthma or other serious allergic reactions, notes study leader I. Leonard Bernstein of ...
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How aggressive a species or population is, is determined by selection. In a society where all individuals are aggressive, a peaceful mutant will have greater chances of survival since it will not fight with others as often as aggressive individuals. In a population of peaceful individuals, an aggressive mutant ...
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HHMI News: Inheriting a Tendency to Brain Infection
Bruce Beutler of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, created a mutant mouse that did not respond to certain molecules that normally trigger cells to ... Events Philosophy Campus Life Janelia News Positions FAQs Overview Science Education Alliance Research Grants for Individuals Science Education Grants for Institutions For Grantees Search Grant Awards About the Grants Office ...
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Learning at the Marian Koshland Science Museum
Evolution is a continuous process. New genetic traits appear randomly and the environment selects for individuals with traits that help them survive and grow. The process can be seen as a ... into daughter cells, each of which has this mutation. Another random mutation occurs as a mutant bacterium divides into daughter cells. The animation shows red  bacteria appearing among the blue and ...
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Loggerhead Marinelife Center of Juno Beach - Rehab-Leucystic
Without the necessary pigment these individuals cannot camouflage in the sargassum and certainly look like pieces of flesh in the water ... them in --and some VERY hard decisions. Also, the educational value of keeping a genetic mutant is poor, as they do not accurately represent the species. Lastly, decisions regarding the hatchlings ...
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