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Ray cat. A ray cat [a] is a proposed kind of cat that would be genetically engineered to change appearance in the presence of nuclear radiation. Philosophers Françoise Bastide and Paolo Fabbri originated the idea of a "living radiation detector" [1] in 1984 as a proposed long-time nuclear waste warning message that could be understood 10,000 ...
Sequoyah, a bronze figure at the US Library of Congress (see Sequoiadendron and Sequoia) Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. Thousands of plants have been named for people, including botanists and their colleagues, plant collectors ...
List of taxa named after human genitals. This a list of species, genera, and other taxa named after human genitals . Orchis militaris, a member of the Orchidaceae family. The genus name originates in the Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis), or "testicle", due to the shape of the twin tubers.
v. t. e. In biology and genetic genealogy, the most recent common ancestor ( MRCA ), also known as the last common ancestor ( LCA ), of a set of organisms is the most recent individual from which all the organisms of the set are descended. The term is also used in reference to the ancestry of groups of genes ( haplotypes) rather than organisms.
The plant contains an active lectin or agglutinin named GNA for Galanthus nivalis agglutinin, which is toxic. [citation needed] Gelsemium sempervirens: yellow jessamine Gelsemiaceae: All parts are poisonous, causing nausea and vomiting. Often fatal. It is possible to become ill from ingesting honey made from jessamine nectar. [citation needed]
Plant taxonomy. Plant taxonomy is the science that finds, identifies, describes, classifies, and names plants. It is one of the main branches of taxonomy (the science that finds, describes, classifies, and names living things). Plant taxonomy is closely allied to plant systematics, and there is no sharp boundary between the two.
Early life and education Fonda aged five, with her father, actor Henry Fonda (1943) Jane Seymour Fonda was born via caesarean section on December 21, 1937, at Doctors Hospital in New York City. Her parents were Canadian-born socialite Frances Ford Seymour and American actor Henry Fonda. According to her father, the surname Fonda came from an Italian ancestor who immigrated to the Netherlands ...
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is a 1994 book by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray, in which the authors argue that human intelligence is substantially influenced by both inherited and environmental factors and that it is a better predictor of many personal outcomes, including financial income, job performance, birth ...