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...Such induced tuberculosis is mild at first and may stay dormant for years, then flare up as a serious disease...
...other hand, when sex cells were placed in the blood of the dormant pupa--where the hormone is absent, and where the animal is not growth--the sex cells underwent no change...
...blocking by CO is reversed by light. By pinpointing light on a particular areas, growth was immediately resumed in that area, while the unilluminated parts continued to lie dormant...
...practice, a single fast airplane could lay a line of Grasshoppers all across a thinly inhabited stretch of enemy territory. They would lie dormant for a while. Then, just before an important bombing mission was due to take off, they would rise on their folding legs, poke out their antennas, and tell the oncoming bombers what kind of weather to expect over the target...
Sleeping Pupa.The three "cytochrome" enzymes are basic growth factors. Present in human beings as well as in silkworms, they control the utilization of oxygen in the tissues. Without them growth is impossible. The dormant Cecropia pupa contains no cytochrome enzymes. Therefore it cannot grow until they are provided by the chain of hormones that starts in its brain...