Sentences with phrase «what shape of egg»

Not exact matches

(and, honestly, my eyes are crap so I cheated really — I know what plants and which bits they use for egg - laying, the time of day it usually happens, and what shape an egg - laying butterly usually makes.)

«Our study took a unified approach to understanding egg shape by asking three questions: how to quantify egg shape and provide a basis for comparison of shapes across species, what are the biophysical mechanisms that determine egg shape, and what are the implications of egg shape in an evolutionary and ecological setting,» said senior author, L. Mahadevan, the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and of Physics at Harvard.»

What begins as a search to explain exactly why the guillemot has an oddly shaped egg evolves into a look at the history of egg collecting, the science behind egg colors, a nerve - racking experience with the few remaining eggs of the now - extinct great auk, and the study of microbes in eggs.

What more could you want than to bite into 260g of solid cheese, beautifully hand made into the perfect egg shape?