Toxinology with Anna Klompen Ologies Podcast August 4, 2020
Toxinology with Anna Klompen Ologies Podcast August 4, 2020 Oh hey, it’s that ceramic frog on your porch who always makes you think it’s a real frog, even though you put the ceramic frog there, Alie Ward, just sayin’, “Hi, what’s up? Another episode of Ologies.” This is a partner episode to last week’s belly full of jellyfish, Medusology. Thank you to everyone on Patreon for submitting your great questions for this episode. You can join for as little as a buck a month. Thank you to everyone who rates and reviews, it actually really matters and keeps the podcast up in the charts for other people to find. And also, I read all of your reviews. Like this week’s from rogueavocado, who says: I love hearing how passionate each ologist is. It really makes you think about what gets your own heart fluttering in life. Sweet! That’s why I love making this podcast so much! Okay, so thank you for the reviews. Now, let’s go to Kansas for toxinology, shall we? So, toxinology… It’s a word which means poison, toxin means poison. It comes from Old French and Latin words for poisoned arrow, which came from an older word meaning a yew tree from which the bows were made. So toxins, toxic, poisons, it’s got some tree roots. Now it means the study of biological toxins produced by venomous animals, or plants, or microorganisms like bacteria, or for example, jellyfish - which if you listened to last week’s Medusology, you now know are cnidarians.
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