Lynx have adapted to life in the snow. They have huge feet that function as snow-shoes, allowing this tufted-eared cat to hunt in deep snow country without wasting energy by breaking trails.
Coral shows its colors
Coral shows its colors New fluorescing dye molecules, including one that
glows red, can be used to track the activity of proteins in living
cells. The green fluorescent protein (GFP) found in jellyfish
enables researchers to study proteins in a variety of cells. It was
previously thought that only light-producing organisms had GFP-like
proteins. But a biologist in Moscow suspected that the ability to
generate light might have evolved from organisms that transform
light into different wavelengths, like fluorescing corals.
Scientists have applied for a patent on the proteins. 1 OCTOBER 1999, P. 39
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