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Why Do Touch-Me-Not Plants Recoil?
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:08:57
Publish Date: 2015-09-09 19:00:00
Description: On a recent vacation to Costa Rica, Indianapolis, Indiana nurse Amy Gastelum did what we all would if given the chance: she touched a touch-me-not plant. Now, she wants to know why the plant recoiled at her touch. Evolutionary ecologist Monica Galiano has our answer.
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