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Frond

(Science: botany) a leaf especially of a fern, cycad or palm, a leaf-like portion of a non-vascular plant (for example a foliose alga).


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The Fiber Disease

... biofilm bacteria use to communicate is a third tactic. In 1995 Peter Steinberg of the University of New South Wales, Australia, realized that the fronds of a red algae growing in Botany Bay are rarely covered with biofilms. He determined that the algae produce substituted furanones, chemicals ...

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by Skytroll
Sun Nov 05, 2006 4:47 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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