As my gaiters filled top down with slime, I uttered a few choice words but was not unduly alarmed. |
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His black homburg was covered with the thick black slime as was his black coat. |
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Within minutes the area was covered in red slime and clouds of tomato sauce filled the air. |
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The Utuku warriors lurched into the clearing in ragged files, swearing, covered with mud and slime up to their underbellies. |
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The stones at the bottom were covered in green and brown slime and a school of small fish swam past them, startled. |
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This meant there was something ghostly nearby, or a pungent concentration of slime, or Robbie Neilson's scungy pyjamas. |
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Those biofilms are the slippery slime that you sometimes find on your carrots if you leave them too long in your refrigerator drawer. |
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Slowly, a form rises out of the chamber, dripping a thick greeny-brown slime. |
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Just then a local Good Samaritan with a chunky four wheel drive and a tow rope came to our rescue and towed us out of the slime. |
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A muck of built-up sewage and slime sits at the bottom of the deep, slow-moving, polluted water. |
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At the present time the river bed, situated in the village is almost dried up and is an unsightly mass of dried algae and slime. |
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A muck of built up sewage and slime sits at the bottom of the deep slow moving polluted water. |
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The nematode is clustered with the acellular slime mold, the cellular slime mold, the malaria parasite, and the dysentery amoeba. |
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But at the least, he'd stay on the sidelines, unwilling to dignify this dishonorable slime. |
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Tommy was looking for glop, or slime, or something disgusting that makes a huge mess, and his mother seemed fine with that. |
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In one type of biofilm, bacterial cells are embedded more randomly in a slime layer which often mediates adherence of cells to surfaces. |
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I heard on the radio this morning that the slime who king-hit him is already on bail for similar violent attacks. |
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The only enjoyment you can get from these sports is the occasional deb resurfacing from a murky lake covered in pondweed and slime. |
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The lake view turned out to be a murky green puddle of water several feet deep, full of moss, slime, and a pack of vicious alligators. |
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It was a layer of slime that coated every surface, reducing all materials to the same revolting color and dimming the lights to an anemic yellow. |
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Insect, bacteria and slime mold communities coordinate growth processes based on interactions among chemical trails left behind by individuals. |
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Other studies have reported that calcium ions are required for phototaxis in Cryptomonas sp. and the slime mold Physarum polycephalum. |
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By this time, the two teams were caked in slime and were indistinguishable. |
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There, Gypsies find and gather what scientists call slime mold, and bake it with flour into rocks. |
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Some amphibians can also be difficult to handle due to their coating of protective slime. |
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Zooming in for a close-up of a slime mold, you can observe the branching network patterns that emerge as the mold grows. |
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The funding allowed the crew to search parts of the ocean never seen before, turning up cat sharks, slime eels and other unusual animals. |
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The bowels were open, but the stools consisted only of green and black slime. |
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There's everything from stinkpot turtles and spitting sea cucumbers to fish slime, cannibalism and much more. |
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They stood on the dusty grass together, blowing brown slime from their noses and hawking it up from their throats. |
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What's more, these results led Simon and his colleagues to investigate an age-old, baffling question about slime mold behavior. |
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When resources dwindle, the slime mold is reprogrammed to produce spore-bearing fruit bodies. |
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So far, 11 myosin genes have been identified in the slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum. |
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The plasmodium of the true slime mold Physarum polycephalum is a multinucleate organism not subdivided into cells. |
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Studies in yeast and slime mould have demonstrated that CK2 is essential for cell viability. |
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It was really quite dark, and every so often, she stumbled over a hidden log or bit of slippery slime. |
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Yet, as she applied the thick slime to his wound a massive stinging sensation gripped him, and made coping much harder. |
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Behind it was a thick trail of sticky slime, almost like that of a slug, only more of a discolored yellow. |
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My ankle blew up to the size of a softball and leaked prolific amounts of worm juice, a syrupy yellow pus that was as slippery as slug slime. |
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A thick layer of scourge slime ensured that no one was going in or out of the dining room. |
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There was a thick black slime on the floor which led to my broken basement window. |
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Such an overwhelming slime pit of sagas would normally infect and ferment your average low budget B-movie, rendering it as unappetizing as moldy headcheese. |
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I read about abiogenesis, the belief that animals and insects can be spontaneously generated from dew, piles of old clothes, the slime in wells, and mud. |
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There is green slime on the grass, the pavement and the road and the geese cause almost continual hold-ups for the traffic by wandering about on the road. |
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They're rather grotesque in that their body is very, very watery and slimy and when you get very large bags of them they tend to sort of slime up the net. |
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It is a blue-green alga, a primitive plant of the same class as seaweeds or the green slime seen on rocks and jetties when uncovered by the sea at low tide. |
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It was full of green slime and muck instead of crystal clean water. |
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Visitors will be able to see how liquid crystals react to light and heat and the York chemists use slime to demonstrate how branched molecules can make gels. |
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Because the movement of the giant vessel was so slow, the only way to mark the rotation was by watching the slime line rise. |
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As Rick Perry and Mitt Romney slime each other, the former pizza magnate is delivering on style and substance. |
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When a slug is encouraged to slime its way down a narrow cul-de-sac, how does it beat a retreat? |
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The rocks are coated with thick black slime out of reach of the 150 young soldiers with olive green shower capes and buckets and spades to shovel up the filth. |
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Their hide was thick and leathery, with a thin film of slime covering it. |
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Specks of food and slime covered their aprons and Will, who had scrubbed a huge casserole pan vigorously to compete with Tommy, had a chunk of lamb fat stuck in his hair. |
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Multiple rows are observed in the glaucophycean algae, some red algae, chlorophycean and ulvophycean green algae, the slime mold Dictyostelium and the tunicates. |
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In three trials out of 19 the slime mould continued to occupy the whole maze, and in another two seems to have refused to play the game altogether. |
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Fortunately, mycologists quickly dismissed any Extraterrestrial Biological Entity hypothesis and identified the blobs as part of a slime mold or myxomycete. |
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It turned out to be a carnivorous fungus called a slime mould. |
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In fungi, plasmodial slime mold displays a diploid life history. |
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Has Human life no more meaning than the life of slime mould? |
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Maybe the politicos in the White House should have thought of that before they switched off their brains and switched on the slime machine back in July. |
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Those stars join a list of past celebrity sliming victims during the popular ritual in which gallons of slime rain down on someone during the festivities. |
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The slime molds are now known to be a mixture of three or four unrelated groups, and the oomycetes are now classified in the Chromista, with the diatoms and brown algae. |
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It feeds, if we may judge from its egesta, upon slime or moistened clay. |
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And if you put Slime or another sealant in them, which I recommend, this lubricates the installation of the final few inches of bead as well. |
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What started out as simple cells ultimately transformed into slime molds, frogs, elephants, humans and the rest of our planet's living kingdoms. |
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The kngdom of fungi also includes yeasts, slime molds, rusts and several other types of related organisms. |
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It is narrated by actor Forest Whitaker, whose warm, velveteen voice can make even a segment on slime mold seem utterly fascinating. |
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The slime molds were studied also as protozoans, leading to a ambiregnal, duplicated taxonomy. |
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Loomis of the University of California, San Diego, used antisense genes in a slime mold to investigate cell specialization and movement. |
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It comes from the Pacific hagfish, a jawless fish which is also known as the slime eel. |
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Simon's group explored toxicity by testing its quantum dots in both human and slime mold cells. |
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The three remaining targets are another roundworm, a hydra from the group of harpoon flingers that includes corals, and a slime mold. |
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Queller's group studied cooperation not in bacteria but in slime mold colonies formed by cells of the social amoeba Dictyosteliurn discoideum. |
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If you asked yourself what sort of a person collects and dries out hagfish slime, award yourself 50 points and a Noddy badge. |
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When the suckers get bitten, the hagfishes exude slime which suffocates predators. |
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If you slipped off a duckboard into the slime you were almost certainly a gonner. |
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Snail slime is believed to have an anti-aging effect on human skin, and some cosmetics are already sold with essence of escargot. |
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You told me you were all-beef, not filled with some pink slime ammonia goop! That is the last thing I want mixed up in my mulched-up cow corpse! |
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Janice was tied to a giant star and had to withstand mealworms, yabbies, slime, green ants and cockroaches. |
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The clitellum of each worm secretes mucus to form a slime tube around the earthworms. |
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The fossils are tiny swarm cells, a stage in the development of the fungus myxomycetes, also known as slime moulds. |
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Hagfish coat themselves and any dead fish they find with noxious slime making them inedible to other species. |
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Improving soil drainage and applying lime in spring will help deter the slime mould that causes the problem. |
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In this two-part inquiry-based lab, students use slime molds to understand the effects of barriers on the movement of organisms. |
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Neither water molds nor slime molds are closely related to the true fungi, and, therefore, taxonomists no longer group them in the kingdom Fungi. |
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The various steps needed to go from icy organics to slime molds are not clear, but the new findings help explain how the process works. |
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Jellylike halls of slime pack the waters of Storr's Lake on San Salvador Island in the Bahamas. |
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Many a man I've known started like you to be an honest outlaw, a merry robber of the rich, and ended stamped into slime. |
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Chaining together arrays of such logic gates might allow a slime mold computer to carry out binary operations for computation. |
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The Gelli Baff, which comes in four bright colours, is sure to be a favourite among kids who will just love making bath time slime time. |
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She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch. |
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And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. |
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David Beckham and two of his sons were gunged in golden slime after he was presented with an award. |
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Will the 2007-08 Lakers really be remembered as the most pathetic, uncaring, gutless losers ever to slime the hardwood? |
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We've never met before, but he's agreed to let me tag along as he leads colleagues to search for as many fungi and slime mold species as they can find in the next 30 hours. |
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If you could take your showerhead apart you'd see some slime. |
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It grows up to 15cm and with no predators and an extra layer of protective slime making them immune to most products, it outcompetes all its fellow UK slugs. |
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The evolution of multicellularity occurred in multiple independent events, in organisms as diverse as sponges, brown algae, cyanobacteria, slime moulds and myxobacteria. |
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To Jason, Gretchen, Daphne and Mark, a rope swing and their favorite swimming hole is the perfect way to pass a summer day, until they notice green slime and a foul smell. |
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In its lower left corner the story starts some three billion years ago with blue-green algae and bacteria, leading to slime molds, green algae, and fungi. |
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During guided inquiry, students learn to work with the plasmodial slime mold Physarum polycephalum and construct mazes using Lego brand blocks as a barrier. |
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Somewhere in the heart of the great Grimpen Mire, down in the foul slime of the huge morass which had sucked him in, this cold and cruel-hearted man is forever buried. |
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We recorded 260 taxa, including 136 species of vascular plants, 45 fungi and slime molds, 22 aquatic invertebrates, 1 fish, 3 amphibians, 2 reptiles, 6 mammals, and 45 birds. |
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With a timid, loutish movement the great beast turned aside, then lumbered off followed by the calf. The other buffalo also extricated itself from the slime and lolloped away. |
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If this guy knows who killed Robert, the right thing to do is to tell the police. If he doesn't know, really, then he's an opportunistic slime. It's still blackmail. |
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The water was drained to a depth of about 4 feet of mud and slime. |
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The slime mould is a resident of Castle Eden Dene National Nature Reserve at Peterlee in County Durham and the discovery is thought to be a first in the North East. |
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