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25 Years Later: Amazing Adaptation in Chernobyl

25 Years Later: Amazing Adaptation in Chernobyl

By: John Davis TTU

This corner of Ukraine is not the predicted nuclear desert, but resembles a pristine, untouched wilderness.

As a cool breeze blows, green trees and marsh grasses sway, making the spot look like an ideal place for a picnic. It’s not unusual to find moose, endangered horses and other large wild animals drinking from these waters. Only the crackling reminder of a Geiger counter attests to the fact that this is still the second hottest radioactive site in the area after the meltdown of reactor No. 4 on April 26, 1986, at Chernobyl.

Twenty five years later, this corner of Ukraine reminds Robert Baker, director of the Natural Science Research Laboratory, of a pristine, untouched wilderness. Only Chernobyl’s ruined reactor, now encased in concrete, and abandoned buildings from neighboring villages and the city of Pripyat testify that humans ever lived in the area.

The 20-mile radiation exclusion zone around the reactor is still too dangerous for permanent human habitation. But all species of plants and animals that should be there, are there, said this Texas Tech Horn Professor of Biology. No species got wiped out completely. None decided never to return.

That fact begged an important question to Texas Tech biologists as to why plants and animals are so prolific here. After all, the site of the world’s worst environmental disaster was slated to become a nuclear desert, according to the May 12, 1986, issue of TIME.

And yet, that’s not the case.

Birch trees climb toward the sky in the hottest zones, replacing their dead pine brethren. Deer bring their young to graze in lush green pastures. Wolves stalk prey and raise their cubs. Birds and waterfowl nest in the Red Forest and Glyboke Lake. The area is alive and thriving.

“The countryside is beautiful,” Baker says.

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 The late scientists Schwann and Schleiden devised a theory known as the Cell Theory which posed that a cell is the basic unit of structure and function in living organisms. A cell is surrounded by a membrane known as the Cell Surface Membrane which is a thin membrane acting as a barrier for the cell contents, its function is to control what molecules enter and leave the cell. All cells contain a structure known as the nucleus which comprises the chromatin, which is a coiled form of a chromosome, and the nucleolus. Next is the cytoplasm which contains the organelles, and is a jelly-like structure found between the cell surface membrane and the nucleus. Despite these common structures present in both animal and plant cells, they also have distinguishing features.

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