Recent content by silas.edwin.johnson

Chameleons tend to like their nuclei. Their red blood cells (which in mammals loose their nuclei) are nucleated in chameleons. What effect does this have on their gas exchange? Idk, bottom line is there's a lot about chameleons that needs to be tested.

Here's a science fact for all of you. If I were to cut myself, my body in order to stop bleeding would send platelets to clot my blood so I stop bleeding. These platelets aren't actually cells but cell fragments. They are unnucleated. Chameleons are different, see chameleons don't have...

Just double checked, and yes my math was off. It would in fact weigh 402 pounds. The reason that sounds so off is because mass increases rapidly with size. So, yeah, I appreciate the correction

Yeah so chameleons are extremely un-dense. Say we had a hypothetical chameleon that was from snout to vent the same length as your average human being. That chameleon would only weigh 4.27 pounds. I'll show you my calculation, and feel free to correct my math...

I'm doing an autecological study on F. pardalis, particularly the more cellular aspects. I was wondering if anybody had ever heard of nondisjunction. The conclusion I came to was that it is POSSIBLE, as evidence of nondisjunction exists in Sceloporus grammicus, which diverged from chameleons 140...

Does nondisjunction occur in Chameleons? If you aren't aware, nondisjunction refers to an error made during the meiosis process, where chromosomes aren't separated properly resulting in weird sex chromosome combinations. In humans that would be like Klinefelter syndrome, or a sex chromosome...