Word: fungi
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Some termite species cultivate fungi, feeding their young upon them. If enemies attack the colony, soldier termites rush to repel them. In relation to the colony, individual termites are utterly selfless. They never loaf, never sleep. They are ceaselessly busy in community service. Except for the king & queen, they never fall in love. There is no individualism in a termite colony...
News of an amazingly tough new cotton came from New Orleans last week. Some cloth and thread were buried in a soil bed alive with fungi and other microorganisms. Ordinary cotton would have decayed within a week. This material, after six months to a year in the ground, was almost as good...
Sometimes there were quiet evenings when he turned to his favorite pastime -the study of biology, particularly the laws of Mendel, under the microscope. (When his third daughter was born and he still had no male heir, he assuaged his disappointment by collecting fungi in the palace park...
...Hirschhorn, plant pathologist, is planning investigations in the biology of the smut fungi, and has alternate research scheduled for Harvard and the University of Minnesota...
Nonetheless, Stakman is no gloomy defeatist. His $300,000 laboratory at the University of Minnesota is one of the liveliest in the U.S., pulsing with Arrowsmithian fervor. His graduates have scattered over the earth, today are fighting fungi in Europe, Australia, China, India. Stake's popularity with youngsters is the talk of the campus. Told that her family planned to have steak for dinner, a faculty tot once burst into tears, sobbed: "But I like him. He's nice...