SciShow | Can Plants Really Count?

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Episode Title: Can Plants Really Count?
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Description: It seems silly to ask if plants can count, but even the New York Times has called Venus flytraps 'Plants That Can Count.' Is counting a thing plants can do? Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/science/the-venus-flytrap-a-plant-that-can-count.html https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/wild-things/catch-meal-venus-flytrap-counts-five https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/the-venus-flytrap-can-count-past-2/ https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(15)01501-8 https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/eating-venus-flytraps-must-count https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2005-04876-001 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3527185/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3228256/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pce.13065 https://www.pnas.org/content/94/7/2793 https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/organ-systems/neuron-membrane-potentials/a/neuron-action-potentials-the-creation-of-a-brain-signal https://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science/fulltext/S1360-1385(17)30280-7 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17263772 https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/plants-cannot-think-and-remember-but-theres-nothing-stupid-about-them-theyre-shockingly-sophisticated/ https://elifesciences.org/articles/00669 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-22991838 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/282/5389/662 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4914563/ https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(18)30741-4 Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/the-new-york-times-weekly-edition-in-delo-newspaper-gm157773702-16126249 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/venus-flytrap-gm515908567-48058944 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/time-lapse-of-growing-venus-flytrap-dionaea-muscipula-plant-1x3w-in-4k-format-with-alpha-transparency-channel-isolated-on-white-background-hk7yet26-j95e6nw2 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sour-drops-gm179437493-26669314 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/green-leaf-gm465846859-33415672 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/venus-flytrap-with-trapped-fly-gm508792460-85444167 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arabidopsis_thaliana_JdP_2013-04-28.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/venus-fly-trap-gm172730339-5126104


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