Biology Facts

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Animals:

1. Batesian Mimicry
2. California Condor
3. Cougars, A Jumping Star
4. Does Your Beagle Have A Belly Button?
5. Endangered Species - The Hawksbill Turtle
6. Eukaryotic Organisms
7. How Do Cats See in the Dark?
8. How Does The Turtle Get Its Shell?
9. Is It Sexism or Racism?
10. Marmaduke and the Taco Bell Chihuahua Are Cousins
11. Nature's Exceptions to Our Rules
12. Regeneration 101
13. The Handsome Betta Fish
14. The Red-Cockaded Woodpecker
15. What Elements Are Required By Animals And Plants For Survival?
16. Where Do Frogs Go In The Winter?
17. Wise As An Owl

Fish:

1. Diadromous Fish
2. Heady Success
3. Lionfish Invasion
4. The Razor-sharp Surgeonfish
5. When A Bass Isn't A Bass

Fungi:

1. A Humongous Fungus Among Us
2. Are Mushrooms Plants?
3. Ergot, Witches & Rye. Oh My!
4. The Gingerbread Man
5. Who Moved My Moldy Cheese?

Genetics:

1. Cloning and Ethics
2. Embryo Transfer and Cloning
3. Genetic Testing And Discrimination
4. Genome Mapping: A Guide To The Genetic Highway We Call The Human Genome
5. Microarrays: Chipping Away At The Mysteries Of Science And Medicine
6. The Dogma of Life
7. Why Aren't Mice More Like Us?

Germs, Viruses, Microbes:

1. Bacteria Sometimes Catch A Virus
2. Bird Flu, Swine Flu, Human Flu
3. Flu Pandemics in the 20th Century
4. Food Irradiation: A Safe Measure
5. How Do Bacteria Reproduce?
6. How Does Salmonella Get Inside Chicken Eggs?
7. Life In The Extreme
8. Microorganisms: Are they really that bad?
9. West Nile Virus Spreads Through United States
10. What's In Your Water?
11. You Can Learn A Lot From A Microbe.

Habitat:

1. An Invasion of Infiltrators
2. Wetlands Top Ecosystem
3. Why Are Zebra Mussels Successful As Invaders?

Human Anatomy:

1. Did You Smell Something?
2. Electricity and the Brain
3. Fahrenheit 100 and Rising
4. Fahrenheit 98.6
5. Hey Nose-Brain!
6. Now You See It, Now You Don't
7. Splitting Hairs
8. The Human Pancreas
9. Vibrational Energy
10. Vitreous Humor, Sclera and Other Yukky Eye Stuff
11. We Live In Two Distinct Visual Worlds
12. What Causes Wrinkles?
13. What Gives Hair Its Color?
14. What We Learned From The Songbirds
15. What's Blindsight?

Human Biology:

1. A Sweaty Subject
2. Can You Drink Too Much Water?
3. How Biological Clocks Work
4. How Blood Clots
5. Is Your Immune System Educated?
6. Leading Killer Wears Two Faces
7. Neurons
8. Obesity: How much fat can your genes handle?
9. Pass the Iodized Salt Please
10. Potassium Iodide To The Rescue
11. Proteins Function Through Their Conformation
12. Proteins In General
13. Respect Your Nose
14. The Science of Tears
15. Water, Water Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink
16. What Are Blood Types, and Why Are They Important?
17. What Are Stem Cells?
18. Your Senses Make Sense of Energy

Human Mind:

1. A Tickle is All in the Timing
2. Billions and Billions
3. Brain Waves
4. Butterflies In Your Brain
5. Coffee: Beverage Of Sedition
6. Do Blind People Dream?
7. Left Nostril Right Brain
8. Monkey See Monkey Do: Mirror Neurons May Lie At The Root Of Language
9. Neurogenesis
10. New Ideas About An Old Puzzle
11. Our Brains: A Wasted Resource?
12. Phrenology
13. Synchronicity
14. The Blood-brain Barrier
15. The Developing Brain
16. The Limbic System
17. The Self-less Gene?
18. The Strange Case Of Phineas Gage
19. The Touching Brain
20. There's A Lot More To Vision Than Meets The Eye
21. Welcome to1984
22. What's So Funny?
23. Where is God in the Brain?
24. Which Came First? The Words or the Melody?
25. Why Are Yawns Contagious?
26. Why Tree Twig Twine Twists Tongues
27. Word Power of the Very Young

Insects:

1. Are Bees Physicists?
2. If You're Bringing Cows, Bring Your Own Decomposers
3. Send In the Lady
4. The Ants Go Marching One by One, Hurrah!
5. The Art of Hunting
6. The Journey of the Monarchs
7. Throw Out Your Thermometer
8. What Makes Those Jumping Beans Jump?

Invertebrates:

1. Nematodes Are Everywhere
2. Prokaryotic Organisms
3. Sex and the Sea Slug
4. What Is A Coccolithophore?
5. What Is Coral Bleaching?

Mammals:

1. Beluga Whales
2. Gestation Periods of Mammals
3. Gray Wolf - Canis lupus
4. Grizzly Bear, (Ursus arctos horribilis)
5. How Did Dogs Evolve?
6. I Am The Walrus
7. Steller Sea Lion Biology
8. Sweet Dolphin Dreams
9. Vampires
10. West Indian Manatee, (Trichechus manatus)
11. When Did A Cat Become A Kitty?
12. Will That Be One Hump or Two?

Natural History:

1. The Great Permian Extinction

Plants:

1. Beware -- Red Tide!
2. Bioenergy Basics
3. Botrytis: The Noble Rot
4. Giant Cloned Monster Loose In Mediterranean Sea
5. GM: Not For General Motors Anymore
6. How Do Cacti Survive in That Environment?
7. How Do They Grow Those Colossal Pumpkins?
8. Is Catnip a Drug for Cats?
9. It All Started With The Colwart
10. Luck Of The Irish?
11. Man-Eating Plants
12. Palm Trees and Prickly Pears
13. St. John's Wort
14. Tea Time!
15. The Rapid Movement of the Soybean Rust Pathogen
16. The World's Largest Clone
17. Tobacco Mosaic Virus
18. What are Bacillariophyta?
19. What is Garlic Mustard?
20. What's The Difference Between A Sweet Potato And A Yam?
21. What’s So Different About Ferns?
22. Why Do Leaves Change Color In The Fall?
23. Why is Red-Green Colorblindness a 'Guy Thing?'
24. Yes! We Have New Bananas

Reproduction:

1. The Egg-citing Egg

Reptiles:

1. A Creature Only A Mother Could Love?
2. Let Go, Gecko!
3. See You Later Crocodile, In A While Alligator
4. Why Can't We Really Clone Dinosaurs?

Spiders:

1. Spiders and Their Venom