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bread mold

noun

  1. any fungus of the family Mucoraceae, especially Rhizopus nigricans, that forms a black, furry coating on foodstuffs.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bread mold1

First recorded in 1920–25
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The hospital was a Goliath of brown brick and gleaming glass, looming over a green lawn as bright as bread mold.

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For a bread mold to grow successfully in minimal media, then, it needed all its metabolic, molecule-building functions to be intact.

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Blue light affects all these organisms and entrains their daily cycle. it is kind of amazing to think we have similar genes as a bread mold, but we do!!

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Her son Alexander learned several years ago, after starting a little late on a fifth-grade project growing bread mold, that he didn’t have enough time to allow the mold to finish growing.

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Digitalis comes from foxglove, quinine from cinchona bark, penicillin from bread mold and aspirin from willow tree bark.

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