How plants tell time - Dasha Savage
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Morning glories unfurl their petals like clockwork in the early morning. A closing white waterlily signals that it’s late afternoon. And moon flowers, as their name suggests, only bloom under the night sky. What gives plants this innate sense of time? Dasha Savage investigates how circadian rhythms act as an internal timekeeper for flora and fauna alike.
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Why research plants? They are beautiful, many of them smell wonderful and a bouquet of flowers can make that special someone feel even more special. But how does research on the molecular activities of plants, like their circadian rhythms, contribute important answers to scientific questions?
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준혁 최
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I think plant research is very important because it can reveal area's characteristics effectively. Plants grow differently according to the environment. So if we research plants, we can understand an area and improve people's life quality.
Also, due to plants growing well, it can be worther than animal research. Furthermore, plants are the source of food so if we know plants exactly, we can reduce famine.
PARK SOPHIA
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They are not very complex. So they are easier to research.
Carla Machio tapias
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The plants are so smart, and the humans we have to investigate more about the plants and we don't know some things about the plants and they are part of our nature, although that they are so beautiful and smell wonderful the plants are so important, we have to research more.
Amr Hajji el Messari
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because plants are more important than we think and we have to research them more
Bochan Seo
Ulsan, South Korea
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Plants give O2.
shawna smith
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Because we are all living creatures, we are all affected by those biological processes, although on a different level. If we understand these processes in plants, it allows us to better understand them in our own bodies.
Guillermo Navarrete
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These questions are answered by research and help us know how organisms of living things work and to know more about life in the world, to interpret the reaction ofplants and how they survive.
이 승찬
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They are not very complex. So they are easier to research
raahim memon
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What we think is time is artificial sense of time created for specific human centered reasons. living by this artificial time is big reason why so much disease happens. Plants can help us understand how the universe really works. they are not encumbered by institutional thinking/brain programming.
Will Davison
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Studying plants can be very beneficial for human life. We are able to find how they do many of the things that they do. This can include how they tell time which we learnt doing these questions. We can also find how they in many different climates. The Pongamia tree is able to survive in many different climates, hot, cold, high in the air. it can survive anywhere if humans could learn this we could create amazing things.
