Portal:Biology/Did you know
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- ...that a prokaryotic cytoskeleton has been found in prokaryote organisms by recent advances in visualization technology?
- ...that the Champawat tigress and the Tsavo lions had suffered injuries that disabled them from pursuing their natural prey, leading them to become man-eaters?
- ...that the aphid Brevicoryne brassicae has been called a "walking mustard oil bomb" due to its use of glucosinolates as a chemical defense mechanism against predators?
- ...that the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack was the first bioterrorism attack in the United States, and one of only two confirmed terrorist uses of biological weapons to harm humans?
- ...that Florida has over 20 official state symbols, including a state soil and a state wildflower?
- ...that Adenovirus serotype 14 is an emerging virus, related to the common cold, that has recently caused 10 deaths in the United States, including at least one healthy young adult?
- ...that three out of every seventy-seven rainbow runners (pictured) have five spines rather than the normal six?
