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Plants have biological clock for sun intake
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Plants have biological clock for sun intake, scientists say
By EMILY GERSEMA Associated Press
Sunday, April 20, 2003
Washington -- Plants appear still and silent, but inside a clock
is ticking.
Scientists in Israel and the U.S. Agriculture Department have
discovered that plants, like animals, have a 24-hour biological
clock.
Like the body clock that tells humans to wake up, plants have one
that tells them to prepare for the sun.
The plant clock is set ...
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Plants have biological clock for sun intake
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; Plants have biological clock for sun intake, scientists say By EMILY GERSEMA Associated Press Sunday, April 20, 2003 Washington -- Plants appear still and silent, but inside a clock is ticking. Scientists in Israel and the U.S. Agriculture Department have discovered that plants, like animals, have
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Researchers Discover Plants' Biological Clock; Gene May Have Health, Agricultural Uses
The Washington Post
; Scientists who created glow-in-the-dark plants by shooting up seedlings with firefly DNA have identified the first biological clock gene in plants. Discovery of the timepiece gene, which controls such biological rhythms as daily leaf movements and pore openings, flower-blooming schedules and
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Timely surprises: biological clocks sense light in obscure ways.(includes related article on biological clock components)
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; When a New Yorker jets off to Los Angeles or Tokyo, it takes just a few seconds to adjust a wristwatch to local time. But as sufferers of jet lag know all too well, the body's internal clock isn't nearly so quick to adapt. It usually takes a few days for a person's biological clock to synchronize
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Men can hear tick-tock of biological clock, too
Chicago Sun-Times
; H H e wants to have a baby. He isn't married. He isn't young. And he isn't kidding. He just wants to have a baby. Bad. Real bad. It is the Boy Biological Clock kicking in. Not much acknowledged, not much discussed, and apparently very much around. It's around in a muted form for guys in their late
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Biological clock study challenged. (Biology).(Brief Article)
Science News
; A report in the July 26 Science disputes the controversial notion that bright light applied to skin can reset a person's biological clock. In 1998, a research group reported, also in Science, that shining light on the back of a person's knees could delay or advance the brain-driven daily rhythm
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And Sarah Laughed: The Biological Clock Metaphor And Its Entailments.(Brief Article)
Women and Language
; Nicole Marie Keating, Univ. of Pennsylvania This paper concentrates on the central entailments of the biological clock metaphor, elaborating on the attitudes that are generated from its use in contemporary discourse. Although the entailments are numerous and varied, the material collected through
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THE PROMISES -- AND PROBLEMS -- IN BEATING THE BIOLOGICAL CLOCK
The Boston Globe
; ... psychological and legal claim? Such queasy ethical questions trail behind each man-made variation on nature's theme. But this time the news is on the breaking of the age barrier. I don't think pregnancy will become a popular retirement activity. I don't think it will ...
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BOSTON TEAM PINPOINTS MAN'S 'BIOLOGICAL CLOCK'
The Boston Globe
; A team of Boston researchers has pinpointed the mechanisms in the brain that underlie the ticking of the human "biological clock." The biological clock, located in an area of the brain behind the eyes known as the SCN is believed to govern a number of important daily biological patterns, known as
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Do men have a biological clock?
The Independent - London
; Lingering by the racks of adorable miniature clothes in Mothercare, cooing over friends' children, secretly choosing names for an infant as yet unconceived. . . it's a woman's thing, isn't it? No, says John, 34, a manager whose wife has made it clear that, at the moment, her career is her priority.
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Chemical basis of a biological clock.
Science News
; Chemical basis of a biological clock The ticking of a fruit fly's biological clock involves a chemical called a proteoglycan, a long chain of sugar subunits attached to a protein. This result, reported by Michael Rosbash of Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., comes from studies of a fly gene
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