Word: kelp
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...more recent invention. Biologist Lynn Margulis of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst believes the evolutionary roots of egg and sperm cells can be traced back to a group of organisms known as protists that first appeared some 1.5 billion years ago. (Modern examples include protozoa, giant kelp and malaria parasites.) During periods of starvation, Margulis conjectures, one protist was driven to devour another. Sometimes this cannibalistic meal was incompletely digested, and the nuclei of prey and predator fused. By joining forces, the fused cells were better able to survive adversity, and because they survived, their penchant for union...
Sated with salmon and sole? Tired of tuna? Creative chefs have begun to challenge taste buds with such species as amberjack, cobia and pout. For good measure, some imaginative toques are cooking the sea creatures with ocean-born vegetables: alaria, arame, hiziki, kelp...
Sated with salmon and sole? Tired of tuna? Creative chefs have begun to challenge taste buds with such species as amberjack, cobia and pout. For good measure, some imaginative toques are cooking the sea creatures with ocean-born vegetables: alaria, arame, hiziki, kelp...
Never mind that trying to grow grass in hot, cold or arid regions is almost as silly as trying to grow kelp. Americans have belawned 25 million to 30 million acres, an area larger than Virginia. Lawn is our connection to the English manor houses to which most of us cannot trace our ancestors; it is the decent, respectably dull necktie we knot around our houses...