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.
Apes source of hepatitis B?
Apes source of hepatitis B? A researcher from the University of Edinburgh,
Scotland, has discovered hepatitis B in three wild chimpanzees.
Peter Simmonds believes that the virus co-evolved with primates 10
to 35 million years ago, and that different strains developed when
the virus was passed to humans. His findings counter theories that
the virus spread from the Americas about 400 years ago. 10 MAY 2000