The Nature of Science

We have talked about the reactions of photosynthesis before. Basically, the plant uses the energy of the sun to fix carbon (change it from g...

Biology concepts – cell walls, chloroplasts, myco-heterotrophs, holoparasites, Life on Earth is easy. It can be boiled down to three sentenc...

Biology concepts – thermoregulation , pollination , tropisms , flower structure , plant communication In many ways, plants are “smarter” th...

This is the third and final installment in our story of photosynthesis by an animal. E. chlorotica , a simple sea slug, has proven to be not...

As you undoubtedly remember, last time we talked about a fascinating exception in biology, an animal that can perform photosynthesis. The se...