Spring in Coyote Ridge Preserve: A Guided Virtual Ramble

By Molly Sharlach on 30 April, 2014

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My version of playing outside usually meant gazing at anthills or gathering seeds and leaves. Closely observing nature came instinctively to me. In the Connecticut woods, at the Bronx Zoo, and at the American Museum of Natural History, I was continually amazed by life's diversity. Later, I daydreamed about ribosomes, polymerases, and mitochondria—the minuscule machines within my own cells. As a graduate student, I had a ringside seat for the world’s tiniest tomato fight: a molecular competition between the plants and their bacterial adversaries. At the same time, a different conflict caught my attention. Even as scientists fine-tuned plant genes to create smarter crops, distortions of their efforts propagated fear of genetic engineering. Leaving behind my battles with microbes and molecules, I now gather explanations to take on the mysteries and misconceptions of science.

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Spring in Coyote Ridge Preserve: A Guided Virtual Ramble

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