{"id":5232,"date":"2011-04-27T01:41:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T08:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=5232"},"modified":"2011-11-08T23:06:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T07:06:12","slug":"why-cockroaches-and-insects-are-resistant-to-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/why-cockroaches-and-insects-are-resistant-to-radiation\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Cockroaches and Insects are Resistant to Radiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/why-insects-resist-radiatio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5233\" title=\"why-insects-resist-radiatio\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/why-insects-resist-radiatio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/why-insects-resist-radiatio.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/why-insects-resist-radiatio-340x252.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.misconceptionjunction.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/cockroaches-would-not-survive-an-extreme-nuclear-fallout\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Cockroach Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The primary reason cockroaches and many types of insects are so resistant to ionizing radiation is that their cells don\u2019t divide that much between molting cycles.\u00a0 Cells are most susceptible to damage by ionizing radiation when they are dividing.\u00a0 Given that a typical cockroach only molts about once a week and its cells only divide around a 48 hour period during that week, about 3\/4 of the cockroaches exposed would not be particularly susceptible to damage by ionizing radiation, at least, relative to those whose cells were currently dividing.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Cockroach Facts The primary reason cockroaches and many types of insects are so resistant to ionizing radiation is that their cells don\u2019t divide that much between molting cycles.\u00a0 Cells are most susceptible to damage by ionizing radiation when they are dividing.\u00a0 Given that a typical cockroach only molts about once [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1329],"class_list":["post-5232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-cockroaches-resistant-radiation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5235,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions\/5235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}