Fermentation – Summer Item #3

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Fermentation is a metabolic process that chemically breaks down/consumes sugar in the absence of oxygen using yeasts, bacteria or other microorganisms. Pictured above are bottles of beer, a drink containing alcohol produced from the fermentation of simple sugars from various grains and hops with yeasts.

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Spore – Summer Item #2

IMG_2403.jpgA Spore is usually a small single-celled reproductive unit capable of growing into an adult individual independently, similar to a seed. In this photo we see clumps of orange fern spores on the underside of a sword fern. For scale the blue footed booby is about 1.5 inches tall.

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