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akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Looking at all the elaborate replies, I cannot help being amazed. Here I thought the Fedi is overrepresented by computers geeks (such as yours truly) but obviously they’ve got NOTHING on the biologically inclined here! 🥰😍

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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
i was bio in college. you be fascinated how certain plants produce thier toxin, and how they make it biochemically. obviously for plants they dont want be eaten so they produce very toxic compounds. and then things like certain insects evolved to deal with toxins. just think of native milkweeds and monarch butterflies , they evolved to concentrate the milkweed poisons it in thier bodies. simarly certain swallowtail related to monarchs use plants called aristholcia(ornamental plants too) the plants are quite toxic, and carcinogenic.

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neidu4@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Well, we are computer geeks, we just (sometimes) have other avenues of interest too.

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- Slatlun@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Some of us are biology geeks who know how computers work too.
  
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  - Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    And other are biological geeks who knows how to press buttons.
    
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- akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Same diff? https://hackaday.com/2020/10/13/the-potatoes-of-doom/
  
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