8 results for “seed”

1. Plants & Fungi

   Seeds

   seeds. Cooking oils are pressed from seeds. Bread, pasta, tofu, beer and chocolate are seeds, transformed

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2. Plants & Fungi

   Flowers and Pollination

   seeds. Nectar, a sugary liquid, is usually offered deep in the flower, so the visitor must

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3. Life & Biology

   Evolution

   seeds here, slender ones for catching insects there. All looked like variations on a single mainland

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4. Animals

   Birds

   seeds each autumn and remembers where most of them are. Why it matters Birds pollinate plants

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5. The Human Body

   The Skeleton and Bones

   seeding it with mineral. Osteoclasts dissolve old bone, carving tunnels through it. Osteocytes, trapped in the hardened

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6. Planets & the Solar System

   Comets, Asteroids and Pluto

   seeded Earth. These small bodies are both the leftover bricks of our world and, occasionally, the greatest

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7. Plants & Fungi

   Photosynthesis: How Plants Eat Light

   seed in soil with nothing but water and sunshine and it grows into a tree weighing

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8. Space & the Universe

   The Big Bang

   seeds of future galaxies. By the time one second had passed, the temperature had fallen to about

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