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title: "Inquiry and Analysis in Biology"
author: "Jeff Wesner, Ph.D., University of South Dakota, Department of Biology, Joseph Raiche, Ph.D., University of South Dakota, Department of English"
date: "2024-01-30T19:26:08Z"
tags: [Biology]
link: "https://bookdown.org/jeffwesner/Inquiry_Textbook/"
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Erich Von Wolf, as the legend goes, was a German Chemist and researcher in the latter half of the 19th century who in 1870 “published” his findings on the iron content of several items including milk, beef, asparagus, and what has garnered far too much attention, spinach. The legend goes that when recording the iron content of spinach, he inadvertently moved the decimal point one space to the right. This caused a ten-fold increase in the reported iron content of the leafy green. The error was left unchallenged until 1936. Seven years earlier the New York’s Evening Journal’s long running comic  ...
