Splitting

... diffuse into the plant. Obviously, carbon dioxide is necessary for photosynthesis. If the amount of oxygen increases within the plant (due to the splitting of water during photosynthesis) the photosynthetic rate decreases until it completely ceases through a process called photorespiration. This ...

See entire post

... or 3 on both sides. The rest have none (new leaves and old). This leads me to think it is not genetic; if it was, would they not all have the same splitting pattern? Or maybe it is similar to how human organs use apoptosis to develop their shapes even though the organs are different. This must ...

See entire post

Lovely clear picture. I don't understand how you managed to keep it in focus because it was moving and there were lots of other unfocussed creatures moving about behind it. I loved the way the 'baby' just moves off unconcerned at the end while the 'mother' doesn't seem to realize that seperation has...

See entire post

Thought some of you might appreciate this. It's a Euglena alga which has undergone binary fission in order to asexually reproduce a duplicate of it's DNA, and then laterally splits to produce another individual. Probably sat there for like 45 minutes looking at the thing. http://www.youtube.com/watc...

See entire post

... present and observing that mess of any kind. What I’m trying to say is that the fact that we’re around, thinking, appreciating harmony and beauty, splitting atoms and writing poetry and it all started with a bunch of hydrogen molecules and the materialized-out-of-the-blue laws of nature is truly ...

See entire post