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... blood . The first way to tackle this question was to meas- ure the blood - sugar levels of a fly in various stages of hunger . We employed precisely the same methods that hospital labo- ratories employ for measuring sugar levels in the ...
... blood . The first way to tackle this question was to meas- ure the blood - sugar levels of a fly in various stages of hunger . We employed precisely the same methods that hospital labo- ratories employ for measuring sugar levels in the ...
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... blood than a fed fly . Then we conducted an ex- periment to test the hypothesis that some causal relationship existed between blood - sugar level and hunger . We injected sugar into a hungry fly in much the same way that a hos- pital ...
... blood than a fed fly . Then we conducted an ex- periment to test the hypothesis that some causal relationship existed between blood - sugar level and hunger . We injected sugar into a hungry fly in much the same way that a hos- pital ...
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... blood forgets being a hero long enough to be physiological and cry for water . Replac- ing blood should allay the symptoms of thirst . In the fly it certainly does . But , and here the fly differs from man , re- placement of blood with ...
... blood forgets being a hero long enough to be physiological and cry for water . Replac- ing blood should allay the symptoms of thirst . In the fly it certainly does . But , and here the fly differs from man , re- placement of blood with ...
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