16 results for “tree”

1. Plants & Fungi

   Trees and Forests

   tree and drawing up water and minerals. Nearly all trees share their roots with fungi, which

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2. Plants & Fungi

   Fungi

   trees, and without them the living world would choke on its own dead. The hidden body

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3. Life & Biology

   Evolution

   tree built from DNA matches the one built from fossils and anatomy almost perfectly. Nobody designing

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4. Animals

   Sharks

   trees have existed on land. They are not mindless killers but precise, ancient and increasingly endangered

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5. Life & Biology

   Ecosystems and Food Webs

   trees declined. In 1995 wolves were reintroduced. Elk numbers fell and, as importantly, elk stopped lingering

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6. Chemistry

   The Chemistry of Life

   tree, a mushroom, a bacterium and a human being look nothing alike, yet underneath they are built

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7. Plants & Fungi

   Photosynthesis: How Plants Eat Light

   tree weighing tonnes. Almost none of that mass came from the soil. It came from the sky, carbon

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8. The Human Body

   The Brain

   tree of branching fibres called dendrites that receive signals, and a single long cable, the axon

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9. Animals

   The Octopus

   tree of life. Our intelligence comes from a backbone and a skull; theirs from the line

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10. Life & Biology

    What Is Life? The Cell

    trees and people, are vast cooperatives. Your body is made of roughly 37 trillion cells of more

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11. Plants & Fungi

    Seeds

    tree. Seeds of a 32,000-year-old Arctic flower, buried by a squirrel and frozen

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12. Life & Biology

    DNA and Genes

    trees, and that the same four letters, arranged differently, are enough to write a bacterium or a brain

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13. Animals

    Animal Migration

    trees. How it does this, and how swallows, salmon, whales, caribou and sea turtles do the equivalent

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14. Animals

    Birds

    tree. The Arctic tern breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Antarctic, flying up to 90,000 kilometres

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15. Animals

    Insects

    tree into hundreds of separate homes: leaf, bark, root, fruit, gall. Flight, which they invented about

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16. Plants & Fungi

    Carnivorous Plants

    tree shrews, which lick nectar from its lid and defecate into the bowl. Flypaper Sundews cover

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