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SSS 2012-06-14

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 Plants that use animals to disperse1 their seeds can find themselves in a pickle2: They need to make fruit tasty enough to entice3 the local fauna4, but they also need to make sure that their animal asssistants don't digest the very seeds that are meant to spread. In Israel's Negev dessert, a plant called seed mignonette came up with the distasteful strategy. Critters called spiny5 mice feed on mignonette. They love the fruit, but they hate the seeds. And so they spit them out all over the place---just as the plant planned. That's according to a study in the journal Current Biology. Sweet mignonette produces little blackberries that house about tweenty seeds apiece. Inside those seeds is an enzyme6. When a berry-champing mouse crushes a seed, the enzyme is freed up to produce compounds that taste like hot mustard. Hence,..., better leaving through chemistry. Researchers armed with video cameras observed the mice spitting the pits like kids eating watermelon on a summer day. Nearly three quaters of the spit-soaked seeds landed intact. And they actually germinated7 twice as fast as seeds taken directly from the fruit itself. It's like a Dickens book: Great Expectorations.

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1 disperse ulxzL     
vi.使分散;使消失;vt.分散;驱散
参考例句:
  • The cattle were swinging their tails to disperse the flies.那些牛甩动着尾巴驱赶苍蝇。
  • The children disperse for the holidays.孩子们放假了。
2 pickle mSszf     
n.腌汁,泡菜;v.腌,泡
参考例句:
  • Mother used to pickle onions.妈妈过去常腌制洋葱。
  • Meat can be preserved in pickle.肉可以保存在卤水里。
3 entice FjazS     
v.诱骗,引诱,怂恿
参考例句:
  • Nothing will entice the children from television.没有任何东西能把孩子们从电视机前诱开。
  • I don't see why the English should want to entice us away from our native land.我不明白,为什英国人要引诱我们离开自己的国土。
4 fauna 9kExx     
n.(一个地区或时代的)所有动物,动物区系
参考例句:
  • This National Park is an area with unique fauna and flora.该国家公园区域内具有独特的动物种群和植物种群。
  • Fauna is a biological notion means all the animal life in a particular region or period. 动物群是一个生物学的概念,指的是一个特定时期或者地区的所有动物。
5 spiny 3F9zU     
adj.多刺的,刺状的;n.多刺的东西
参考例句:
  • This is the Asiatic ornamental shrub with spiny branches and pink blossoms.这就是亚洲的一种观赏灌木,具有多刺的枝和粉红色的花。
  • Stay away from a spiny cactus.远离多刺仙人掌。
6 enzyme cPozF     
n.酵素,酶
参考例句:
  • Above a certain temperature,the enzyme molecule will become unfolded.超过一定温度,酶分子将会展开。
  • An enzyme that dissolves the fibrin of blood clots.能溶解血凝块中的纤维的酶。
7 germinated 34800fedce882b7815e35b85cf63273d     
v.(使)发芽( germinate的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • First, the researchers germinated the seeds. 研究人员首先让种子发芽。 来自辞典例句
  • In spring they are germinated and grown for a year in beds. 春季里,他们在苗床发芽并生长一年。 来自辞典例句
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