I received this query from a high school student: I currently am in high school at [a good school] and I’m very interested in science. In my biology class, I was learning about how chloroplasts and mitochondria have cell membranes, the only organelles to do so in the current eukaryotic cell. I was thinking about… Continue reading →
I took some students out to our local lake, Lake Artemesia, and did a couple of plankton tows and a “weed squeeze”. While looking at the samples I took this micrograph and then realized after the fact that it encapsulates much of plastid evolution in one photo. The filament on the left is Mougeotia, a member… Continue reading →
More evidence that Latin is cool AMD was proud of their Turion 64 chip for mobile computers, and presumably it is a very nice piece of work. This is, of course, exciting to botanists everywhere, because turion is a botanical term of long standing, although rather obscure even among botanical terms. It is good to know that… Continue reading →
