Friday, February 26, 2010
Today i heard the phrase, her/his "periderm is worse than " his/her "bite". (I can't remember the gender.) Puns make the world go round. With that in mind, I scoured the internet for biology puns...
I think some of them are just downright nerdy, don't you?
Of course, the best puns are the ones you come up with yourself...so let me take a crack at this:
"What did the DNA say to the RNA? We don't need U here."
Ok, I can't think of any others. :(
Perhaps I'm not cut out to be a comedian.
Oh well, pass me a gamma-radiation sterilized scalpel and I'll make a wet-slide of that apple I wanted to eat.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Roots. Roots seem to be the best thing since sliced bread for plants. Not only do they absorb nutrients and water, they can perform so many other functions. They can store nutrients and organic materials. They keep the plant from blowing away and the topsoil from vanishing with the wind. They can be big and sociopathic(taproots) or small and in such numbers as to make them just clumps of awesome. And they can be tasty. Onions, potatoes, stuff like that. All roots. Ginger. Root. Root beer. No brainer, comes from a root. Seriously, we should get some of these. We should all lay down roots. (literally).
Or not. I like moving around too much to do that.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010Dermal Tissue Systems make me jealous...
Ok, it might just be me, but plants have WAYY better defense than we do. We have...skin. And when that skin tears..it just gets patched up. Plants(like trees) get BARK! WOOD! Way better than our little fleshy stuff.
I just can't help thinking that animals got the short end of the evolutionary stick. Heterotrophic. Dependence on sexual reproduction. Soft skin.
We don't even get pretty flowers on our heads!
Seriously...we should revolt and become sentient plants. We could be lazy all day, we could make our own food, we wouldn't have messy relationship issues because we never even have to see the organisms we mate with...
That'd be simple as 1, 2, 3.
Of course...it'd be pretty boring too.
Bark can tear, get fungal diseases, completely helpless! Imagine getting a cut in your skin and then just saying, "Ah, my skin, it bleeds." Then not being able to do anything about it. But then again, if you are a plant, you wouldn't be saying/thinking anything. Hmm, James, you may be onto something. And, if you were a pea plant, you'd be famous thanks to Mendel.
ReplyDeleteThe lazy thing though...some plant is going to get you for that. Even plants have the the "struggle for survival" hence evolutionary change and Darwin and natural selection blah blah blah. Surviving without the ability to run, not lazy. Good job with these posts, James! Keep it up. The rest of you - come on now. I want to hear from you.