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algae  n.  Plural of alga.






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"Algae" Quotes from Famous Books



... quite possible that the same organism may be both vegetable and animal, or may be first the one and then the other. If some organisms may be said to be at first vegetables and then animals, others, like the spores and other reproductive bodies of many of the lower Algae, may equally claim to have first a characteristically animal, and then an unequivocally vegetable existence. Nor is the gradation restricted to these simple organisms. It appears in general functions, as in that of reproduction, which is reducible to the same ...
— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley

... present? Population close to six billion, and rising fast. There was a leveling-off period in the Sixties, and then it started to climb again. No wars, no disease to cut it down. The development of synthetic foods, the use of algae and fungi, rules out famine as a limiting factor. Increased harnessing of atomic power has done away with widespread poverty, so there's no economic deterrent to propagation. Neither church nor state dares set up a legal prohibition. So here we are, at the millennium. In place of ...
— This Crowded Earth • Robert Bloch

... animals and plants, the locomotive spores of some algae, furnished with cilia, would have been ranked with animals if it had not been known ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin



Words linked to "Algae" :   planktonic algae, cryptomonad, euglenid, red algae, chlorella, protoctist, brown algae, chlorophyte, cryptophyte, euglenophyte, seaweed, diatom, yellow-green algae, blue-green algae, confervoid algae, euglenoid, fucoid algae, alga



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