Topics from May 2016
- Why don’t identical twins have identical fingerprints?
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- How do turtles reproduce?
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- How do spiders manage without getting caught in their own web?
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- Why is the sting of a scorpion more painful than that of a snake sting? What are the chemicals in their poisons?
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- Can snakes hear? How do they respond to charmers’ mahudi?
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- How do penguins survive and breed regularly in Antarctica despite the chill?
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- Why do we get a bulge on the skin after a mosquito bite?
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- When killed, some mosquitoes bleed and some do not. Why?
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- How do the large marine mammals manage to sleep without drowning?
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- How do leeches suck our blood without causing any pain?
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- How do leeches manage to prevent blood from clotting?
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- Why the population of house files does suddenly increases in summer?
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- How does a firefly emit light?
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- Why does hair fall?
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- Why do we blink our eyes?
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- How do parrot’s talk?
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- With its small body mass, how does a monarch butterfly obtain enough energy to migrate 1,800 miles?
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- Why do snakes move in a zigzag manner?
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- Why does the light of firefly twinkle while that of glow-worm remains constant?
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- How do ants go in a line?
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- How do ants manage to float on water?
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- Ants do not get hurt when they fall. Why?
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- How do ants find their way to hidden sweets?
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- Why do birds never fall off their perches when sleeping? Do they, in fact, sleep?
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- Why do the eyes of some animals glow in the dark?
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- How do honey bees find their way back to their hives?
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- Why don’t we have hair on our palms?
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- What is the difference between hair and fur?
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- Why are some insects attracted towards light?
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- How do insects enter and live inside mangoes?
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- Eagles do not flap their wings often, yet fly for long. How?
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- Why do our arms move to and fro when we walk?
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- How do birds navigate home after long journeys?
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- Do sheep swim? If so, how do they learn?
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- It is true that a red flag agitates a bull?
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- How come zoo animals like lions seem to lie around all day and yet stay fit? Also pet cats seem to lie around all day and yet stay fit?
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- Why and how do falling cats land on their four legs, always?
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- What imparts fragrance to flowers, fruits and species?
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- Fruits were supposed to attract animals. So what is the point of lemons tasting, so sour? Are there any animals which actually like the taste? Did we breed lemons from ones that were sweeter? Or do an
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- How do trees reduce air pollution?
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- Why do vegetables such as cucumber, snake gourd and bottle gourd sometimes taste bitter?
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- Beetroot contains a red colour pigment called betacyanin. Does it aid in the formation of blood cells in any way?
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- Normally the bark of trees turn brown but in some the stem remains green even after a few years. Why?
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- Why do some trees hold onto their leaves longer than others?
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- Why are some portions of sugarcane red?
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- Why does the touch-me-not plant shrink when touched?
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- Why are leaves of crotons coloured?
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- What makes Venus fly-trap plant insectivorous?
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- What is plant tissue culture?
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- How do plants survive during certain season’s inspite of shedding leaves?
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- How can we identify poisonous and non-poisonous mushroom?
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- Why do raw fruits such as mango ripen faster when kept in rice tins?
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- How does temperature affect ripening bananas?
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- How do fruits ripen?
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- Why does apple turn brown on being cut?
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- Why do drops of lemon create white spots on the floor?
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- Why does the lotus leaf not get wet?
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- Why do flowers have different colours?
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- Why does jasmine bloom only in the night?
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- Why and how does the sunflower always face the Sun?
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- Why does the Kurinji flower only once in 12 years?
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- What is terminator gene technology? How is it used to help our farmers?
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