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7-22-2023

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Categories: 2023, July, July 22
Tags: #Bladderwort

Common Bladderwort (Utricularia macrorhiza), in the Lentibulariaceae family, is not merely common. It’s aquatic foliage, has little bladders on it, visible here, which draw in water, filter out micro crustaceans etc., then digest and expel them. How’d they figure that trick out? Mutation and selection through deep time are an incredibly powerful mechanism, with occasionally flabbergasting results. And here we are

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