21. July bonus - Fun scientific facts
Discovery Matters
English - July 24, 2020 14:45 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsLife Sciences Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Dodi and Conor welcome colleague Kaycee Palumbo for the Discovery Matters special of "Did you know?"
Sources:
Drugged-out hallucinating zombie cicadas https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1754504819300352
zombie ants https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166061617300593
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3309767/
https://explorebiotech.com/50-interesting-facts-biotechnology/
The human genome
https://www.genome.gov/17516714/2006-release-about-whole-genome-association-studies
About 99.9% of human DNA is the same. It is the other 0.1% that codes for all of the differences that make each person unique.
The length of the human DNA compared to the world
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/how-long-is-your-dna/
Each cell contains about 2m worth of DNA, if you stretch it end to end, It would measure up to be twice the diameter of the solar system
Small water pools in Mexico can show us the early seas/life on earth
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/pools-mexican-desert-are-window-earth-s-early-life
How gut bacteria influences us.