botany
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"However, the genes in chloroplasts and mitochondria often contain defects," explains Elena Lesch, a doctoral student at the University of Bonn's Institute for Cellular and Molecular Botany.
From Science Daily • May 17, 2024
The lieutenant, who was promoted to captain in 1772, recorded that 40 spears were taken from the villages of the Gweagal people living at Kamay, the Aboriginal name for Botany Bay.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2024
Milt McGiffen, a cooperative extension specialist with the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at UC Riverside, was less sure.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2024
What they came up with was evoked in schemes to establish a national penal colony in places like Île-à-Vache, off the coast of Haiti, and Alaska, dubbed “America’s Botany Bay.”
From Salon • Dec. 2, 2023
Botany smells like glue and blotter paper and pressed flowers.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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