This is an essay about a new type of poisonous dart frog that was recently discovered that alters a chemical from the food they eat to create their poison and make it stronger.
Title: This is an essay about a new type of poisonous dart frog that was recently discovered that alters a chemical from the food they eat to create their poison and make it stronger.
Category: /Science & Technology/Biology
Details: Words: 334 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
This is an essay about a new type of poisonous dart frog that was recently discovered that alters a chemical from the food they eat to create their poison and make it stronger.
Category: /Science & Technology/Biology
Details: Words: 334 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Scientist have actually found a poisonous frog that takes a toxin from its prey and then changes the chemical to make it much more deadly. There are at least three species of what are called the Dendrobates frogs. They range from 4-to-5-centimeters long and they can be found in the New World tropics. The frogs modify an alkaloid to create one that's about five times as poisonous. The poison, one of a class called …showed first 75 words of 334 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 334 total…the frogs who were fed the spiced insects, about 80 percent of the natural form of 251D had been converted to another toxin, called allopumiliotoxin 267A but the unnatural form of 251D showed up unchanged in the frogs skin.
This discovery is only one of the many remarkable discoveries we will make about the animals on our planet. There is so much we have to learn and we have so much time to learn it all.