Harvest of fear: should we grow gm crops? Note: We have temporarily discontinued the final vote and tallying options of this feature.
Learn why. The feature itself remains unchanged, and we encourage you to try it. On the following pages, you will be asked the same question seven times: "Based on what you now know, do you think we should raise genetically modified (GM) crops? " Each time, you must answer Yes or No to that question, and each time, depending on how you responded, you will be presented with a new counterargument meant to challenge your stance. Thus, this feature presents six arguments for growing GM crops and six against, but whenever you answer yes or no, you will only see one side of the argument -- the one meant to challenge your position.
Introduction Industry, government, and many academic scientists tout the benefits of genetically modified (GM) foods for agriculture, ecosystems, and human health and well-being, including feeding a world population bursting at the seams. So These Actually Exist: Flowers That Look Like Something Else. Monkey Face Orchid (Dracula Simia) Moth Orchid (Phalaenopsis) Naked Man Orchid (Orchis Italica) Hooker’s Lips (Psychotria Elata) Dancing Girls (Impatiens Bequaertii) Laughing Bumble Bee Orchid (Ophrys bomybliflora) Swaddled Babies (Anguloa Uniflora) Parrot Flower (Impatiens Psittacina) Snap Dragon Seed Pod (Antirrhinum) Flying Duck Orchid (Caleana Major) Orchid That Looks Like A Tiger Happy Alien (Calceolaria Uniflora) Angel Orchid (Habenaria Grandifloriformis) Dove Orchid Or Holy Ghost Orchid (Peristeria Elata) Orchid That Looks Like A Ballerina White Egret Orchid (Habenaria Radiata) Darth Vader (Aristolochia Salvadorensis)
Intriguing Lime Green Blobs Appear In The Andes Mountains. Are They Alive? : ... Oops.
Someone dropped lime sherbet on the desert — and it's melting. Who's going to clean this up? Nobody. Because this — believe it or not — is a plant. It may look like a glob of goo, but it's not at all gooey. What kind of plant is this? Think about that. They look like green gift-wrapping. As the Bolivian guide explains in the video below (the plant can be found throughout the Andes), llareta is such good fuel that, even though it's very ancient, people regularly use it to start campfires and even, back in the day, to run locomotives.
The best thing about llareta is what it looks like. Me too. Artist/photographer Rachel Sussman has some pretty nice photos of llareta in her new book, The Oldest Living Things in the World. Lichen. A lichen (/ˈlaɪkən/,[1] sometimes /ˈlɪtʃən/ [2]) is a composite organism consisting of a fungus (the mycobiont) and a photosynthetic partner (the photobiont or phycobiont) growing together in a symbiotic relationship.
The photobiont is usually either a green alga (commonly Trebouxia) or cyanobacterium (commonly Nostoc).[3] The morphology, physiology and biochemistry of lichens are very different from those of the isolated fungus and alga in culture. Lichens occur in some of the most extreme environments on Earth—arctic tundra, hot deserts, rocky coasts, and toxic slag heaps. However, they are also abundant as epiphytes on leaves and branches in rain forests and temperate woodland, on bare rock, including walls and gravestones, and on exposed soil surfaces (e.g., Collema) in otherwise mesic habitats.
The roofs of many buildings have lichens growing on them. Overview[edit] The body (thallus) of most lichens is different from those of either the fungus or alga growing separately. Photo Album. Chinese fleeceflower. A-Z Links. RHS Plant Finder.