FlipFact of the Day: Invertebrates such as spiders have an open circulatory system, which means that the oxygen-carrying fluid running through it is in contact with its muscles and its other internal fluids. This blood analogue is called hemolymph, and instead of the iron-carrying hemogoblin that we find in our blood, it has hemocyanin, a copper-based protein that, when oxygenated, turns bluish-green in color.
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Today’s Science History Milestone: On July 5, 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published the Principia (or the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica), which contained his laws of motion and law of gravitation. Many consider it to be one of the most important works in science history.
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References
- https://www.flipscience.ph/health/fear-spiders-genetic-trait/
- http://www.explorit.org/science/spider.html
- https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/resources/highschool/chemmatters/issues/best-of-chemmatters/sample-lesson-plan-the-many-colors-of-blood.pdf
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