I know, I'm so mean for giving an assignment over break, but hey, that's what I do. I can't just let you sit around and not think about science for 10 days in a row.
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Big plant thing.
You may know someone who's taller, shorter, blonder, or more artistic than all of his or her relatives. The phenomenon can make you wonder at the strange ways in which family trees sometimes work. Rafflesia plants present a similar puzzle. They boast the world's largest known flowers. With buds the size of basketballs and blooms that stretch 3 feet across, they can weigh up to 15 pounds. They're also among the stinkiest flowers in existence. For nearly 200 years, botanists have debated which plants are most closely related to rafflesias. Now, researchers from Harvard University have used DNA to put the plants in their place. Analyses of eight genes suggest that these megaflowers belong in the same family as poinsettias and castor beans. The discovery is a surprise because poinsettias and many of their relatives in the Euphorbiaceae family have tiny flowers. (Poinsettias may look big and flowery, but their bulk actually comes from large, red, leaflike structures, not flowers.) ________________summary… opionion________________-
The Rafflesia is the worlds largest flower. It’s buds are about the size of basketba;s and when they bloom eah petal reaches 3 feet long!! They are very stinky flowers. They’ve been debating and trying to figure out which flower was related and they came up with two. poinsettias and castor beans.
My opinion cant go very far because I don’t really know anything about plants and don’t have much interest in them but I think it’s pretty cool how big it is.
hey mr mills !! =D ummm i wanted to do my article but i couldnt find the link thingy to go the article.... for some reason !!! =D so i just wanted to tell u , so u would kknw that i was goin to do it but couldnt find the link!! thnx oh by the way this is sara !! =D :)
In the future, natural gas from chunks of ice that people collect from beneath the ocean floor and beneath the arctic permafrost could fuel cars, heat homes, and power factories. Government sceintists are saying that these so-called "gas hydrates," a frozen form of natural gas that bursts into flames at the touch of a match, show increasing promise as an untouched source of clean, sustainable energy. *************summary************************* i think that this idea is wounderful and i fully agree that we need to take a step forward to discover more ways to replace wood and stuff that is destrong are planet.
Diagnosed with an extremely aggressive form of cancer called anal sac adenocarcinoma, Oscar's future seemed bleak. Bedridden and unresponsive to chemotherapy or radiation, he would be lucky to survive three months. But thanks to an innovative new drug treatment, Oscar's cancer receded and he was walking again within two weeks.
Oscar's recovery was extraordinary enough, but his case was unusual for another reason. Oscar is a Bichon Frise, who scientists reporting in Salt Lake City, Utah at the 237th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society on March 23 call "the Miracle Dog." Joseph A. Bauer, Ph.D., and colleagues described promising results with a drug called nitrosylcobalamin (NO-Cbl) in battling cancer in Oscar and three other canines without any negative side effects. While it gives profound hope to dog owners, NO-Cbl also points to a powerful new cancer treatment for humans — one that infiltrates cancer cells like a biological Trojan horse. ScienceDaily (Mar. 24, 2009 SOUKAYNA
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Big plant thing.
You may know someone who's taller, shorter, blonder, or more artistic than all of his or her relatives. The phenomenon can make you wonder at the strange ways in which family trees sometimes work.
Rafflesia plants present a similar puzzle. They boast the world's largest known flowers. With buds the size of basketballs and blooms that stretch 3 feet across, they can weigh up to 15 pounds. They're also among the stinkiest flowers in existence.
For nearly 200 years, botanists have debated which plants are most closely related to rafflesias. Now, researchers from Harvard University have used DNA to put the plants in their place. Analyses of eight genes suggest that these megaflowers belong in the same family as poinsettias and castor beans.
The discovery is a surprise because poinsettias and many of their relatives in the Euphorbiaceae family have tiny flowers. (Poinsettias may look big and flowery, but their bulk actually comes from large, red, leaflike structures, not flowers.)
________________summary… opionion________________-
The Rafflesia is the worlds largest flower. It’s buds are about the size of basketba;s and when they bloom eah petal reaches 3 feet long!! They are very stinky flowers. They’ve been debating and trying to figure out which flower was related and they came up with two. poinsettias and castor beans.
My opinion cant go very far because I don’t really know anything about plants and don’t have much interest in them but I think it’s pretty cool how big it is.
BY: Abbie
hey mr mills !! =D ummm i wanted to do my article but i couldnt find the link thingy to go the article.... for some reason !!! =D so i just wanted to tell u , so u would kknw that i was goin to do it but couldnt find the link!!
thnx
oh by the way this is sara !! =D :)
ICE THAT BURNS..........
In the future, natural gas from chunks of ice that people collect from beneath the ocean floor and beneath the arctic permafrost could fuel cars, heat homes, and power factories. Government sceintists are saying that these so-called "gas hydrates," a frozen form of natural gas that bursts into flames at the touch of a match, show increasing promise as an untouched source of clean, sustainable energy.
*************summary*************************
i think that this idea is wounderful and i fully agree that we need to take a step forward to discover more ways to replace wood and stuff that is destrong are planet.
Diagnosed with an extremely aggressive form of cancer called anal sac adenocarcinoma, Oscar's future seemed bleak. Bedridden and unresponsive to chemotherapy or radiation, he would be lucky to survive three months. But thanks to an innovative new drug treatment, Oscar's cancer receded and he was walking again within two weeks.
Oscar's recovery was extraordinary enough, but his case was unusual for another reason. Oscar is a Bichon Frise, who scientists reporting in Salt Lake City, Utah at the 237th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society on March 23 call "the Miracle Dog." Joseph A. Bauer, Ph.D., and colleagues described promising results with a drug called nitrosylcobalamin (NO-Cbl) in battling cancer in Oscar and three other canines without any negative side effects. While it gives profound hope to dog owners, NO-Cbl also points to a powerful new cancer treatment for humans — one that infiltrates cancer cells like a biological Trojan horse.
ScienceDaily (Mar. 24, 2009 SOUKAYNA
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