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Males change to females with Atrazine pesticide

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Atrazine, one of the world's most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists.
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Dear Arthur,

 

No wonder why I can hit the high notes again.  I have been eating too much chemically enhanced corn and sorghum.

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Maybe time not to eat frog legs as a new food!

 

Actually the medicines we toss away and go thru our bodies is also polluting our own water supply too.

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March 8, 2010

 

Dear Arthur,

 

My son, the learning biologist, says that some frog species do change their sex naturally. As to why, I was asked probing questions in Biology class.

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