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During the Irish famine a red seaweed, became an important substitute for the potato crop that had been destroyed by blight
dulse
In Maine and eastern Canada, where it is a popular snack food, dulse is referred to as
"Nova Scotia Popcorn”
Japan Another red seaweed occurs in American and Asian waters and is used extensively for food, particularly in the Orient.
purple laver (nori)
another important edible red alga. It is also used in bulking laxatives, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical preparations.
Irish moss
is a dessert made from Irish moss and milk.
Blancmange
mucilaginous substance extracted from Irish moss and used as a thickening agent in chocolate milk and other dairy products.
Carrageenan
obtained from yet another red alga, is used as a laundry starch, as an adhesive in hair dressings, and in some water-based paints.
Funori
One of the most important of all algal substances
agar
Agar produced most abundantly by the red alga
Gelidium
Agar which has the consistency of g
gelatin
are cultured commercially on such media and induced to grow into full-sized plants (“Micropropagation”). Its use in making the capsules containing drugs and vitamins is now worldwide
Orchid tissues
contain a number of substances of potential medicinal value
red algae and other seaweeds
number of seaweeds have been used in preparations designed for the expulsion of digestive tract worms, control of diarrhea, and the treatment of cancer.
20
Chemical relatives of (blank) are produced by certain red algae.
DDT
THE PLASMODIAL SLIME MOLDS
PHYLUM MYXOMYCOTA
In what place there was an exhibit of hair growing on wood.
Ripley's "Believe It or Not" pavilion at the Chicago World's Fair
are totally WITHOUT CHOLORPHYLL and are incapable of producing their own food.
PHYLUM MYXOMYCOTA – THE PLASMODIAL SLIME MOLDS
PHYLUM MYXOMYCOTA is like during much of their life cycle
animal like
PHYLUM MYXOMYCOTA like when they reproduce.
fungus-like
number of species of slime molds average only 10 to 12 micrometers in diameter and are individually invisible to the naked eye.
500
