(image from Andrew Dunn via Wikipedia)
ETA: Also it makes me wonder what we are doing eating mushrooms, when their cell walls are surrounded by CHITIN, which is what makes up the exoskeletons of crabs and lobsters and beetles. WEIRD.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Chitin is not pronounced the way I think it is
I'm supposed to be studying fungi for my Diversity & Evolution of Plants midterm [the wrath of God will shortly fall upon in the form of this test] [and yes I know it's Saturday night] and the material is often interesting, but not interesting enough to stop me from watching this peach decay over and over again:
(image from Andrew Dunn via Wikipedia)
ETA: Also it makes me wonder what we are doing eating mushrooms, when their cell walls are surrounded by CHITIN, which is what makes up the exoskeletons of crabs and lobsters and beetles. WEIRD.
(image from Andrew Dunn via Wikipedia)
ETA: Also it makes me wonder what we are doing eating mushrooms, when their cell walls are surrounded by CHITIN, which is what makes up the exoskeletons of crabs and lobsters and beetles. WEIRD.
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