Tag Archives: biology
Pause to Watch: Cockatoo burglars
Even plants can do maths
If you have three cookies and dinner is five hours away, how slowly should you eat the cookies so that you don’t get dangerously hungry?
This is the kind of calculation that plants do during the night when they are waiting for sunlight to come back on. Here’s a recap from primary school biology: plants generate … Continue Reading ››
Pause to watch: Crash course in awesome
ATP, or adenosine triphosphate is my favourite organic molecule by far. (DNA is my second, for the record.) This clever little devil is the powerhouse of biology. It's no stretch to say it's the fuel that drives life.
And get this: it's so good at its job, that it's used by everything from yeast to plants … Continue Reading ››