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Wickedly Cool Plants
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An interview with biologist Raul Gutierrez. Dr. Biology and his co-host Taylor Cheatham learn about some very cool desert plants and some non-desert plants that are just wicked.
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| Topic | Time |
| Intro - | 00:00 |
| Do plants sweat? [Taylor] | 02:31 |
| Have you heard of photosynthesis? [Dr. Biology] | 03:01 |
| Why do cactus have spikes? [Taylor] | 03:32 |
| Is the puffer fish related to cactus? [Taylor] | 04:10 |
| Have you heard of Jumping Cholas- and do they really jump? [Dr. Biology] | 04:34 |
| What are those things that look like strawberries on cactus? [Taylor] | 05:09 |
| What's Devil's Claw - [Dr. Biology] | 05:43 |
| What does a person do when they study a particular plant? [Dr. Biology] | 07:32 |
| How does a plant travel thousands of miles? [Dr. Biology] | 08:17 |
| How small can cacti be? [Taylor] | 09:47 |
| How tall would a saguaro cactus be after 5 years? [Dr. Biology] | 10:12 |
| How old are really tall saguaro cacti [Dr. Biology] | 10:50 |
| Do some plants give us medicine? [Taylor] | 11:06 |
| What would the world be like without plants? [Taylor] | 11:47 |
| In Arizona are there any plants we should avoid? [Taylor] | 12:47 |
| What's an herbarium? [Dr. Biology] | 13:16 |
| How do you make your own herbarium? [Dr. Biology] | 14:34 |
| Plants that hunt insects. [Dr. Biology] Venus trap and Pitcher plants. | 16:01 |
| When did you first know you wanted to be a biologist? [Dr. Biology] | 19:06 |
| If you weren't a biologist what would you be? [Taylor] | 19:34 |
| What advice do you have for young scientists? [Dr. Biology] | 20:03 |
| Can plants grow on dead plants? [Taylor] | 21:02 |
| What is pollen made of? [Taylor] | 21:23 |
| Sporopollenin | 22:39 |
| Sign off | 23:05 |
| How to submit audition recordings for the co-host contest. | 24:53 |
Wickedly Cool Plants
Audio editor: Charles Kazilek
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