Although it is proven by the University of Melbourne that the Komodo dragon has, like many other lizards, venom-producing genes, it is actually something else that kills their prey. Always drooling, the Komodo dragon’s saliva contains lots of bacteria that instantaneous infects the bite from ...
Komodo dragon kills with venom, not bacteriaKatherine Harmon
In the present work, we applied this process to the discovery of novel AMPs from plasma obtained from another reptile, the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), a large species of lizard found on the Indonesian island of Komodo. The saliva of wild Komodo dragons is thought to contain many dif...
C. a Komodo dragon is more than eleven feet long D. nobody dares to keep a Komodo dragon as a pet 2. The underlined word “venom” in Paragraph 2 probably means ___. A. the chemical that does no harm B. a kind of way that kills its enemy C. a kind of poisonous liquid...
a Komodo dragon is more than eleven feet long D. nobody dares to keep a Komodo dragon as a pet 2. The underlined word “venom” in Paragraph 2 probably means ___. A. the chemical that does no harm B. a kind of way that kills its enemy C. a kind of poisonous liquid of some ...