biologylove

hi everyone! I have been so busy these days. All thanks to exams, papers and reports. But lo and behold! Going to school is actually fun :)

I just had this random thought of stuff that I have learned in college that made me say those oohs and aahs. Some of these are:

• Almonds originally contain poisonous compounds like cyanide. A defective nut without any of these substances were the ones cultivated by agriculture today. It's birth defect that is actually a good thing.
• A strawberry is not a berry :D It's a type of fruit called achene wherein it's an aggregate of numerous flower ovaries. Example of berry fruits are tomatoes and guava.

• The red stem of a santan flower is actually a part if its petal. So it is a trumphet-shaped flower.

• Our closest relative when it comes to physiological processes in our bodies aren't monkeys but pigs. (oink!)

• Sea cucumbers could get rid of their organs when subjected to stress. They could regenerate them later. It's a process called evisceration. It looks gross. Check the video
  
• Deserts are growing biomes. From occupying 1/8 of the earth, now it's 1/5.
• The coconut fruit is the coconut seed :)
• If you have an itching bum when the time's around 4 or 5 pm, most probably you got pinworms laying its eggs at the hole. :/

• There are whales called Right Whales. They were called as such because humans refer to them as the "right whale to hunt". They're the most endangered whale species.
  

lastly..

• Natural ingredients does not necessarily mean that they're good for our health. Plants have tons of substances that contain poison that protects them from being consumed.

That's it! Brain food :D