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(More customer reviews)The chickenpox GIANT MICROBE takes the form of a white plush sphere, aboutthe size of a standard baseball, with a firmly attached red-colored ruffle, and two plastic eyes. The eyes are not flat like ordinary buttons -- they are more like hemispheres.
Chickenpox is a great learning toy, because the real chickenpox virus actually has a ruffle going around it. This ruffle is visible under the electron microscope.
For people who have the inclination to squeeze rubber balls, a some surrogate for smoking cigarets, I recommend the chickenpox toy. It can be squeezed repeatedly. Although I do NOT have any need to do this, I just noticed that chickenpox can be squeezed, and that it bounces back right away.
The product comes with a cardboard label, and the label bears a 500-word introduction to the medical aspects of chickenpox virus.
So far, I have about ten microorganisms from GIANT MICROBES. I have several of the bacteria, a couple of viruses, and the bed bug. Although I have not devoted any regular or ongoing attention to any of these things, I've had them for a few years, and am under the impression that they are sturdy, and do not open up, and do not fray. As far as learning is concerned, these will make a fine gift for children, providing that an adult with training in microbiology, biochemistry, or molecular biology, is around to bestow some sense of meaning to the child. Just for the record, I suggest that interested parents go to the web site of the National Institutes of Health of the United States government, and find the complete genome for chickenpox virus. This will facilitate efforts to explain the meaning of the viral genome, and of the collection of proteins encoded by the viral genome. FIVE STARS to this colorful plush toy.
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