algae
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Eukaryotes – including all animals, plants, algae and fungi – are very different.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
Think mushroom leather, spider-silk filaments, membranes of algae.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
“Root systems protect Lake Tahoe’s clarity by stabilizing soils that could erode, and uptaking nutrients that would feed algae in the lake,” Cowen wrote in an email.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Shortly after reopening, the water turned green with algae.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Nothing distracted the meerkats from their little lives of pond staring and algae nibbling.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
"More than 80 fish were observed around a single floating alga," said Mr Mazoudier.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2024
Blue-green algae is not actually an alga but rather a type of bacteria called cyanobacteria.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2023
This is the first recorded example of an alga practicing an aquatic equivalent to pollination.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 28, 2022
In the case of Gracilaria, however, things are more complicated: The female alga doesn’t release its egg cells, but keeps them inside funnel-shaped filaments.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 27, 2022
She is curious; she wants to know the difference between an alga and a lichen, a Diplodon char- ruanus and a Diplodon delodontus.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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