jueves, 14 de febrero de 2019

Roses are red and so is . . . blood? | Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Roses are red and so is . . . blood? | Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Source: Eva Mutunga and Kate Klein, University of the District of Columbia and National Institute of Standards and Technology. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.​

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Roses are red and so is . . . blood?

Here’s our Valentine’s Day gift to you: a silly poem with a science theme—and our latest blog post.
Your blood is red.
Squid blood is blue.
Scientists know why,
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