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What happens to the smarter mice and fruitflys? I'm thinking Pinky and the Brain for the mice.
posted by
mikea18
on August 12, 2006 at 11:45 AM
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Mushrooms
I always assumed that I was the mushroom taster. I tend to have them appear on my plate from your whole family.
posted by
mikea18
on August 10, 2006 at 8:45 PM
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Food
Blanche,
I always thought the whole food tasting thing is funniest in regard to poisonous stuff. Some mushrooms are okay;others will kill you. I hate mushrooms. To me, they're all fungus, so I'm safe all around. But seriously, some person tasted mushroom A to find out it was poisonous at some point. You'd think after one was poisonous, they'd rule the category out. I would...but to me they're nasty so I'd rule they out anyway. :)
posted by
terpgirl30
on August 9, 2006 at 8:12 PM
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Terpgirl, what I remember from Biology 101, is that Drusophila fruit flies
are used for genetics tests, because they reproduce liie every 11 days or so, it's easy to spot a mutation. how smart the fruit fly is doesn't seem to enter into the equation, it's just how fast it breeds.
I hate the whole cosmetics bunny eye test. I don't know about white lab rats, and how mice got to be so lucky. I guess because nobody complains cause they're rodents and not bunnies.
I don't know the part about the lettuce, what's up with that?
posted by
Blanche.
on August 9, 2006 at 1:28 PM
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Blanche
It's scary to me that you can answer any part of that question. I really wonder how they decided to use these particular creatures for all the testing. It's that old joke about eating things the first time---who at that piece of lettuce the first time. It looks like every other weed, right? Well, these creatures seem about the same as any another. I don't get it. I always wondered that about the whole thing about testing perfume on a bunny rabbit's eyes. Who decided that the first time, and why?
posted by
terpgirl30
on August 9, 2006 at 1:23 PM
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posted by
star4sky5
on August 8, 2006 at 5:48 PM
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Terpgirl,
How do you measure the intelligence of a fruit fly? It crawls faster? I thought Drusophila were only used for genetics tests, because they reproduce fast, not to see how smart they are.
I could answer that second part of the question, but I've got myself in enough hot water talking politics. I think you probably have a pretty good idea who my list of political candidates for smart pills would be. 
posted by
Blanche.
on August 8, 2006 at 10:45 AM
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