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...University scientist has found that a one-celled green plant, an alga, duplicates its transmitters of genetic information (DNA) in the same way as bacteria. This discovery of Noboru Sueoka, research fellow in Biology, reinforces the theory that at the fundamental level of biochemistry, most living processes are the same...
...deoxyribonucleic acid) occurs in all living cells as long chains of molecules. In reproduction it passes on a "blueprint" governing cellular chemical events. Sueoka has shown that when a cell of the green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardi, divides into two daughter cells, the new cells each contain half of the original DNA molecule and also a newly synthesized portion...
...marimo is a plant, a kind of alga (Aegagropila sauteri), found in three small patches of water in Lake Akan on the northern island of Hokkaido. Their name means "ball of fur," and fair-sized specimens look like green, fuzzy tennis balls. What makes them so dearly beloved is their quaint behavior...
Successful attempts to photograph the eye in color were made in 1927-28 by Dr. Lawrence Redway of New York. The machine in use at the present time was built by Carl Zeiss in Germany on Dr. Redway's design. A special camera that takes a 4 1/2s6cm. Alga color plate stands on a vertical arm. It is franked by two light sources and in front of it is a chin rest for the subject. The lens is an F: 4.5. The two main modifications that have been made from the original plans are the substitution of incandescent light...
...source of U. S. agar is a dark red alga familiar along the beaches of southern California. The alga grows generally in turbulent waters, must be picked by hand. Engineers are at present at work on a mowing machine which will stand rough seas, make production cheaper. Often the alga grows in water 60 ft. deep where only experienced divers can gather it. The factory has to pay $180 per ton to these seagoing harvest hands...