bread mold
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bread mold
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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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!!
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2018
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.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2015
Caffeine was already known to alter the circadian clock in red bread mold, green algae, fruit flies, and sea snails.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2015
In addition, as easily cultured eukaryotic organisms, some fungi are important model research organisms including the red bread mold Neurospora crassa and the yeast, S. cerevisiae.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
For a bread mold to grow successfully in minimal media, then, it needed all its metabolic, molecule-building functions to be intact.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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