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What thorny bush did pioneers use for fence material for livestock?
What is the Osage Orange?
Is the Osage orange edible?
No!
This CDA staff member has been smuggled past Israeli guards into the Arab quarter for dinner at the apartments inside the Dome of the Rock/Temple Mount site.
Who is Mrs. Zylstra
What did the skunk cabbage help to create?
What is a thermostat?
What plant inspired Georges de Mestral to create Velcro?
Where else does the folding pattern of beech leaves occur?
What tree begins each growing season with new leavers compactly folded within small buds?
What is the beech tree?
This CDA staff member has been chased by seals while swimming in the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Mrs. McClelland
What are smart clothes based off of?
What are pine cones.
What is the Venus flytrap's mechanism?
What is "snap instability"?
What is the study of self-treatment activity called?
What is zoopharmacognosy?
What percent of our drugs come from plants?
60%
This CDA staff member has volunteered at an orphanage in Mozambique and a school in Honduras.
Who is Mrs. Lee
Where is the Osage orange native to?
What is East Texas?
Where did Christopher Columbus notice the flexible ball?
Where is Haiti?
What is the valuable field of native study called?
What is ethnobotany?
Do protein based solar cells have several advantages over the more familiar silicon cells?
Yes!
This CDA staff member has butchered 100 chickens at once.
Who is Mrs. Salo
Name two self planting plants.
Wild wheat and filaree.
What is the most used herbicide?
What is RoundUp?
Withing the capillary tubes of the bean plants are very unused protein complexes called _______________
What are forisomes?
What was the building called that was named after a tropical water lily?
What is the Crystal Palace?
This CDA staff member has been in almost every state in the United States with the exception of Wisconsin.
Who is Mr. Davidson
What is the behavior called when plants generate chemical defenses?
What thing other than cockleburs displays a Velcro type hook?
What is a feather?