14 results for “egg”
Plants & Fungi
Flowers and Pollination
egg. The egg becomes a seed, and the ovary around it swells into a fruit. A fruit
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Animals
Birds
eggs, often in a nest, and keeps them warm with its body. Feathers Feathers are the most
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Animals
Reptiles and Amphibians
eggs in water. The young, tadpoles, hatch as swimming, gill-breathing creatures with tails, then transform
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Planet Earth
Inside the Earth
egg. It is also cracked into about a dozen large plates that slide slowly over the layer
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Life & Biology
Dinosaurs and Mass Extinctions
eggs, and fossil nests show that some brooded them and cared for their young. The flying
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Life & Biology
DNA and Genes
egg splits. Copying errors add a little novelty too. Each child carries around 60 new mutations
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Animals
Insects
egg-laying queens and thousands or millions of sterile workers, who forage, build, nurse the young
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Life & Biology
What Is Life? The Cell
egg, and all carry the same set of instructions. Inside a cell A cell is not a bag of soup
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Animals
Mammals
eggs. Their young hatch and then lick milk that oozes from patches on the mother's skin
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Animals
Animal Migration
eggs on the very same stretch of sand. Salmon leave the stream where they hatched, spend
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Life & Biology
The Origin of Life
egg problem. The leading solution is RNA. RNA is a cousin of DNA that still carries
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Plants & Fungi
Seeds
egg becomes an embryo, a miniature plant with a root tip at one end and a shoot
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Animals
The Octopus
eggs for weeks or months without eating, dying as they hatch. An intelligence this rich, built
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Space & the Universe
Galaxies and the Milky Way
eggs of old reddish stars with almost no gas, having used it up or lost it long
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