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bread mold

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noun

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


Etymology

Origin of bread mold

First recorded in 1920–25


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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

They include the familiar bread mold, Rhizopus stolonifer, which rapidly propagates on the surfaces of breads, fruits, and vegetables.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

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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