SciShow | How Plants Tell Time

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Episode Title: How Plants Tell Time
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Description: Plants don’t have brains or muscles, and yet some of them can perform such feats as eating insects or following the sun. Scientists haven’t completely figured out how this happens, but they do have some pretty strong leads. 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: http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/movements/leafmovements/oxalis/oxalis.html http://blogs.evergreen.edu/pim-group7/understanding-nyctinastic-movement/ https://www.livescience.com/34569-why-flowers-close-at-night-nyctinasty.html https://www.thedailygarden.us/garden-word-of-the-day/nyctinasty https://www.mobot.org/jwcross/duckweed/phytochrome.htm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC366182/pdf/plntphys00247-0103.pdf https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/%28SICI%291521-3773%2820000417%2939%3A8%3C1400%3A%3AAID-ANIE1400%3E3.0.CO%3B2-Z https://www.thoughtco.com/definition-of-reversible-reaction-and-examples-605617 https://www.nature.com/articles/206215b0.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/3546032?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168945214000818?via%3Dihub https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305890471_How_do_sunflowers_follow_the_Sun_-_And_to_what_end https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014579307003729#bib47 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-3040.1993.tb00522.x https://academic.oup.com/pcp/article/38/5/526/1935394 https://depts.washington.edu/cims/research/Bio-Intelligent-Materials.pdf http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/plantphysiol/67/5/965.full.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014579307003729#bib42 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6314/897 https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/65/20/5749/2485228 ---------- Images & Video: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desmanthus_pern_83565_b.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desmanthus_pernambucanus_nyctinastic_(nighttime)_leaf_movement_0175.JPG https://www.flickr.com/photos/schill/3787936438/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bauhi_purpu_151006-0058_tdp.JPG


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