Cold

... something inevitable that even evoltuion cannot fix. After all, all those very long lived organisms that I know of are either reptiles or other cold-blooded animals, or plants, which all have low metabolic rates and thus probably less oxidative damage and defects resulting from that. Size has ...

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... Certain largish amphibians seem to be able to cryopreserve themselves to some degree (getting back to "life" is much easier with cold-blooded animals), but those are the biggest things there are that survive some degree of cryoprservation - and even that is not a real thing, since ...

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typical blooming period (here in pacific nw) is April to August. Spring is warm with rain and sun, and occasional cold-snaps. Summer is hot and dry. So if a plant blooms in spring, what types of conditions is it avoiding by not blooming in summer? Conversely, if a plant blooms in ...

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it looks like just a bad cold/ the flu. But why are you asking this here instead of seeing a physician?

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... of anti-biotics, where-as viruses can be insufferably hard to cure or vaccinate against. For example: We still don't have a cure for the common cold. Sources: Biology teachers, Nelson Biology VCE Units 1&2

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