Carnivorous plants - like all plants - can make food from the sun's energy and carbon dioxide in the air and water from the ground. The insects that the carnivorous plants eat are devoured not for food but for the minerals they provide.
Science Builds A Better Guinea Pig
Science Builds A Better Guinea Pig Scientists say they have for the first time
genetically modified a monkey with high hopes of it being a missing
link between people and primates for medical research. The three
month old male rhesus monkey [nicknamed ANDi—“inserted
DNA spelled backward] carries the green fluorescent gene from a
jellyfish in its DNA. Its creators in Portland, Oregon say that the
monkey shows that researchers should be able to insert genes that
cause human disease into our primate cousins for use as the
ultimate guinea pigs. JANUARY 12, 2001
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