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because the epidermis in those areas has calluses which take in more water. Source: everydaymysteries 5.)Eyebrows Many people see eyebrows as just another facial feature to be self conscious about.

Humans lived thousands of years walking barefoot and developing calluses that would protect their feet from twigs

Because they get just a few leaves in every bite they spend most of their day eating Acacia trees have long thorns that deter most animals but not giraffes.

Their 18-inch (46-centimeter) tongues can reach around the thorns and their thick sticky saliva coats any thorns they might swallow.

The dark blue-gray color of a giraffe's tongue helps protect it from sunburn while the giraffe is reaching for tree leaves.

but that on about the ninth day of development, the nascent chicken penis called a genital tubercle stops growing

Chickens showed increased levels of Bmp4 a protein that promotes cell death near the tip of the tubercle."

Researchers were able to stave off genital cell death in chickens by treating one side of the tubercle with Noggin, a protein that blocks Bmp activity.

Treating one side of growing duck tubercles with Bmp4 resulted in localized cell death and penis shrinkage, mimicking normal genital development in male chickens.

In addition to mechanical defenses such as thorns and spines plants also produce compounds that keep insects and other herbivores at bay by acting as repellents or toxins.

Basically what we've done is accelerate the entire plant process he said. Crop yields nearly doubled said Peter Ward Dooley's doctoral adviser a UW professor of biology and of Earth and space sciences and an authority On earth's mass extinctions.

and kidney cancer cells in the lab. After 96 hours of exposure to a 20-to-1 rice callus solution 95 percent of the kidney cancer cells were killed

Wusirika thinks the rice callus culture may be attacking cancer with the same sort of plant chemicals that make vegetables so healthy to eat.

He also wants to determine which of the compounds released by the rice callus have cancer-killing properties

Or he notes it's possible that the suite of biochemicals found in the callus solution work as a team to fight cancer.

which were hidden by thorn bushes except for a narrow passage. The only way to reach their tree is passing the trap.

Plants have evolved defense mechanisms to protect themselves such as thorns bitter-tasting berries and in the case of certain types of grass by harbouring toxic fungus deep within them that can be dangerous

Three loggerhead shrike chicks hatched in Mid-may at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute In front Royal Va. Loggerhead shrikes also called butcher birds are songbirds that hunt small animals by impaling them on thorns or barbed wire.

It is still unclear as to how the plant processes information and how this complex behaviour was able to develop over the course of evolution.

and accommodation in the form of food bodies and nectar as well as hollow thorns which can be used as nests.

The acacia also provides shelter the so-called domatia in the hollows of its swollen thorns.

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