Word: fungi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides, despite the fact that Norton G. Miller, associate professor of Biology, seemed like a real nice guy and even brought in a whole bunch of mosses for the class to look at, I think I may check out Bio 140--"Algae"--or 143--"Fungi" instead. Or maybe I'll hold off altogether until next semester and take Bio 129--"Properties of Excitable Membranes...
...negative. CDC tests found no indication of either plague or typhoid fever. So the search went on into more exotic terrain. Tests also ruled out tularemia (rabbit fever), a deadly tropical disease known as Lassa fever, and Marburg disease, a viral disease from Africa. Further screening seemed to dismiss fungi as a suspect; no fungus is known to produce the fatally fulminating pneumonia typical of Legion disease...
Divided into castes that include workers, soldiers and immature young, ants carry out a wide variety of organized activities. Ordinary garden ants herd aphids, which they milk for their sweet nectar. Some species of ants farm, tending crops of tiny fungi in their underground chambers; others take and keep slaves from rival ant colonies. Species like the driver ants of Africa and the army ants of South America conduct military campaigns with a precision that any general would envy, advancing in columns protected by soldiers over routes carefully scouted by advance parties. Ants are also accomplished architects; African termites...
Raper, born in rural Davidson County, N.C., studied at the University of North Carolina under John Couch, a leading mycologist, and began his own exploration into the sexual development of higher fungi...
...work with fungi took him to Cologne, Germany in 1960 where he studied as both a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. In 1967 he was visiting professor of Genetics at Hebrew University in Israel...