The wood frog (Rana sylvatica) has the ability to freeze solid and then come back to life upon thawing. This video clip shows the process.
There are other organisms other than the wood frog that also have this ability. This article from The Scientist gives other examples and explains how this works and how scientists are looking to use this ability with humans
Comment on how scientists can use this information to improve human life and health. Also comment upon this affects the characteristic of life of homeostasis. We also discussed transport of water by osmosis and sugar by active transport and facilitated diffusion. What do these have to do with this adaptation?
That is cool. That means freezing at that temperature for them is like some sort of Cryosleep. It's too bad we can't freeze and come back to life when we thaw. That would be nice.
ReplyDeleteLike a form of Cryostasis, except for small anphybian animals. That could make it, yet highly unprobable, posible to splice the DNA of those animals with our own and then be able to test such an ability.
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