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Plant Biology
Plant Biology: or Botany, also called plant science(s) or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plantscientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field.
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FEB 23, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
Plant roots can drill down into the soil, new work has shown. While it happens too slowly for us to see, time-lapse phot ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 19, 2021Plants & Animals
Washington’s Puget Sound is famously home to resident and transient orca pods. However, during their yearly migrat ...Written By: Tiffany DazetFEB 19, 2021Microbiology
Chemicals that are designed to kill weeds, known as herbicides, can apparently raise the levels of antibiotic resistant ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 18, 2021Plants & Animals
In a discovery touted as a "fortunate accident," scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) stumbled u ...Written By: Tiffany DazetFEB 17, 2021Space & Astronomy
The Chicxulub impactor is thought to have crashed into Earth around 66 million years ago near the Mexican coast. The cra ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 13, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
The fastest growing plant in the world is known as duckweed or Wolffia. It grows on every continent except Antarctica, h ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 10, 2021Plants & Animals
Say “hello!” to the nano-chameleon, a top contender for the world’s smallest reptile. According to the ...Written By: Tiffany DazetFEB 10, 2021Genetics & Genomics
The venom of some spitting snakes has evolved to cause more pain to mammals, a defense mechanism likely meant to fend of ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 09, 2021Plants & Animals
The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) might be the most famous carnivorous plant; it can entice prey to land on its leaf ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 08, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
With good food and exercise, many dogs can live a long and healthy life. But some suffer from chronic conditions that ca ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 07, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
Animals grow from what looks like a clump of cells, but those cells organize into specific patterns, laying the right fo ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 02, 2021Plants & Animals
Humans aren't the only creatures with dialects that are specific to certain regions. It seems that colonies of naked mol ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 01, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
When an organism dies, it begins to decay. It's long been assumed that after death, the cells in an organism break down ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 31, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists and archaeologists have long sought to learn when humans started consuming milk. They have tried to use indir ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 29, 2021Microbiology
An international team reported finding a filamentous microfossil found in South China, shown in this image by Andrew Cza ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 27, 2021Plants & Animals
The Tyrannosaurus rex is known as a fearsome predator, and is among the biggest animals that have ever lived on Earth. N ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 25, 2021Microbiology
The advancement of genetic and computational tools has given us so much new information its opened up new research field ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 23, 2021Microbiology
About a year ago, I wrote about the virus that would come to be known as SARS-CoV-2 for the first time. And while we've ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 21, 2021Plants & Animals
Earlier this week, the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation reported that the western monarch butterfly populati ...Written By: Tiffany DazetJAN 21, 2021Plants & Animals
The gray whale population along the east coast of the Pacific Ocean has undergone a significant decline. Earlier this we ...Written By: Tiffany DazetJAN 21, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
Cats love catnip and silver vine; the cat-attracting plants are treats that make cats excited and happy. Big cats also f ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 19, 2021Plants & Animals
Plastic pollution in the ocean is a major problem, from the great Pacifici Garbage Patch to the micro plastics that have ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 18, 2021Genetics & Genomics
The platypus is a near-threatened species from eastern Australia and Tasmania. It's considered a mammal because it grows ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 13, 2021Plants & Animals
Earlier this week, the Associated Press reported that several gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park tested positive ...Written By: Tiffany Dazet
FEB 23, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Plant roots can drill down into the soil, new work has shown. While it happens too slowly for us to see, time-lapse phot
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 19, 2021
Plants & Animals
Washington’s Puget Sound is famously home to resident and transient orca pods. However, during their yearly migrat
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
FEB 19, 2021
Microbiology
Chemicals that are designed to kill weeds, known as herbicides, can apparently raise the levels of antibiotic resistant
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 18, 2021
Plants & Animals
In a discovery touted as a "fortunate accident," scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) stumbled u
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
FEB 17, 2021
Space & Astronomy
The Chicxulub impactor is thought to have crashed into Earth around 66 million years ago near the Mexican coast. The cra
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 13, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
The fastest growing plant in the world is known as duckweed or Wolffia. It grows on every continent except Antarctica, h
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 10, 2021
Plants & Animals
Say “hello!” to the nano-chameleon, a top contender for the world’s smallest reptile. According to the
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
FEB 10, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
The venom of some spitting snakes has evolved to cause more pain to mammals, a defense mechanism likely meant to fend of
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 09, 2021
Plants & Animals
The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) might be the most famous carnivorous plant; it can entice prey to land on its leaf
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 08, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
With good food and exercise, many dogs can live a long and healthy life. But some suffer from chronic conditions that ca
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 07, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Animals grow from what looks like a clump of cells, but those cells organize into specific patterns, laying the right fo
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 02, 2021
Plants & Animals
Humans aren't the only creatures with dialects that are specific to certain regions. It seems that colonies of naked mol
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 01, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
When an organism dies, it begins to decay. It's long been assumed that after death, the cells in an organism break down
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 31, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists and archaeologists have long sought to learn when humans started consuming milk. They have tried to use indir
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 29, 2021
Microbiology
An international team reported finding a filamentous microfossil found in South China, shown in this image by Andrew Cza
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 27, 2021
Plants & Animals
The Tyrannosaurus rex is known as a fearsome predator, and is among the biggest animals that have ever lived on Earth. N
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 25, 2021
Microbiology
The advancement of genetic and computational tools has given us so much new information its opened up new research field
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 23, 2021
Microbiology
About a year ago, I wrote about the virus that would come to be known as SARS-CoV-2 for the first time. And while we've
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 21, 2021
Plants & Animals
Earlier this week, the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation reported that the western monarch butterfly populati
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
JAN 21, 2021
Plants & Animals
The gray whale population along the east coast of the Pacific Ocean has undergone a significant decline. Earlier this we
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
JAN 21, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Cats love catnip and silver vine; the cat-attracting plants are treats that make cats excited and happy. Big cats also f
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 19, 2021
Plants & Animals
Plastic pollution in the ocean is a major problem, from the great Pacifici Garbage Patch to the micro plastics that have
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 18, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
The platypus is a near-threatened species from eastern Australia and Tasmania. It's considered a mammal because it grows
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 13, 2021
Plants & Animals
Earlier this week, the Associated Press reported that several gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park tested positive
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet