Plant in sentence

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Half a million people did not have access to clean drinking water for an extended period of time, and the waste soon entered into the Doce River, extended for 650 kilometers all the way into the sea, killing unknowable amounts of plant and animal life along the way.

A few months ago, I was touring the manufacturing plant of a multinational aerospace company in Querétaro, Mexico, and the VP of logistics points out a completed tail assembly.

When those tail assemblies are done, they're exported via truck to Canada to their primary assembly plant where they come together with thousands of other parts, like the wings and the seats and the little shades over the little windows, all coming in to become a part of a new airplane.

What happens is that when rain falls, the holes are able to store the water and appropriate it to the extent that the plant needs the water.

The plant can only assimilate as much water as needed until harvest time.

This petri dish that you are looking at contains approximately 20 minutes' worth of pollution captured off a pyrolysis plant.

Even some plants use mimicry: there are orchids that look and smell like female wasps to attract hapless males, who end up pollinating the plant.

So, I did tropical ecology and plant botany.

If you could plant one idea into the minds of everyone here, what would that be?

When we ask that, students will instantly tell you that their cat or dog has a brain, and most will say that a mouse or even a small insect has a brain, but almost nobody says that a plant or a tree or a shrub has a brain.

Anyone who has grown a plant has noticed that the plant will move and face the sun.

In the swamps behind his house, he found a plant that would spring shut every time a bug would fall in between it.

He called this plant the flytrap, and within a decade, it made its way over to Europe, where eventually the great Charles Darwin got to study this plant, and this plant absolutely blew him away.

He called it the most wonderful plant in the world.

This is a plant that was an evolutionary wonder.

This is a plant that moves quickly, which is rare, and it's carnivorous, which is also rare.

And this is in the same plant.

But I'm here today to tell you that's not even the coolest thing about this plant.

The coolest thing is that the plant can count.

So I'm going to first introduce you to the mimosa, not the drink, but the Mimosa pudica, and this is a plant that's found in Central America and South America, and it has behaviors.

So what we're going to do now, just like I recorded the electrical potential from my body, we're going to record the electrical potential from this plant, this mimosa.

So I'm going to go ahead and tap the leaf here, and I want you to look at the electrical recording that we're going to see inside the plant.

That is an action potential that is happening inside the plant.

And now, in our arms, we would move our muscles, but the plant doesn't have muscles.

So we're going to send information about touch from one plant to another.

One species not only has the colour and appearance of rotting meat; it emits a scent of decay as well– drawing in flies who deposit their eggs on the flower and unwittingly pollinate the plant.

They only paid me, like, a little bit of money to do this, so I had to call a friend of a friend who was running the GM prototype plant, SLA plant, that was down.

You're going to open an offshore plant in China, you're going to spend it all on sales and marketing, you're going to go to Tahiti, whatever.

Sub-Saharan Africa, southern Africa, has got over 5,000 medicinal plant species, not harnessed.

So we have a sample of honey and we look at all the plant DNA, and we find out, "I'm sumac!" (Laughter) And that's what we found here in Provincetown.

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