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Gracilaria parvispora, also known by the common names long ogo, red ogo, or simply ogo, is a large species of marine red alga in the genus Gracilaria, endemic to Hawaii.[1]

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  1. 104 relations: Acanthophora spicifera, Acanthuridae, AlgaeBase, Ancient Hawaiian aquaculture, Aquaculture, Ash (chemistry), Asia, Asparagopsis taxiformis, Atlantic Ocean, Baja California Sur, Biodiversity, Biomass (ecology), Blenniiformes, Boron, Calcium, Calorie, Carbohydrate, Caucasian race, Centropyge, Coconut Island (Oahu Island), Contiguous United States, Copper, Cystocarp, Decomposition, Detritus, DKH, Edible seaweed, Endemism, Epiphyte, ʻEwa Beach, Hawaii, Fish market, Fluorescence, Fringing reef, Fruit (plant structure), Gametangium, Gonimoblast, Gracilaria, Gracilaria coronopifolia, Hauʻula, Hawaii, Hawaii, Hawaii Pacific University, Hawaiian Islands, Hawaiian language, Hayward, California, Herbivore, Hokukano-Ualapue Complex, Holdfast (biology), Honolulu, Introduced species, Invasive species, ... Expand index (54 more) »

  2. Algae of Hawaii
  3. Edible algae
  4. Gracilariales
  5. Marine biota of North America
  6. Marine fauna of the Gulf of California
  7. Seaweeds
  8. Species described in 1985
  9. Taxa named by Isabella Abbott

Acanthophora spicifera

Acanthophora spicifera is a species of marine red algae in the family Rhodomelaceae.

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Acanthuridae

Acanthuridae are a family of ray-finned fish which includes surgeonfishes, tangs, and unicornfishes.

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AlgaeBase

AlgaeBase is a global species database of information on all groups of algae, both marine and freshwater, as well as sea-grass.

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Ancient Hawaiian aquaculture

Before contact with Europeans, the Hawaiian people practiced aquaculture through development of fish ponds (loko ia), the most advanced fish-husbandry among the original peoples of the Pacific.

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Aquaculture

Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. lotus).

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Ash (chemistry)

In analytical chemistry, ashing or ash content determination is the process of mineralization by complete combustion for preconcentration of trace substances prior to a chemical analysis, such as chromatography, or optical analysis, such as spectroscopy.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Asparagopsis taxiformis

Asparagopsis taxiformis (red sea plume or limu kohu), formerly A. sanfordiana, is a species of red algae, with cosmopolitan distribution in tropical to warm temperate waters. Gracilaria parvispora and Asparagopsis taxiformis are algae of Hawaii, edible algae, Hawaiian cuisine and seaweeds.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Baja California Sur

Baja California Sur ('South Lower California'), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California Sur (Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur), is the least populated state and the 31st admitted state of the 32 federal entities which comprise the 31 States of Mexico.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Biomass (ecology)

Biomass is the mass of living biological organisms in a given area or ecosystem at a given time.

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Blenniiformes

Blenny (from the Greek ἡ βλέννα and τό βλέννος, mucus, slime) is a common name for many types of fish, including several families of percomorph marine, brackish, and some freshwater fish sharing similar morphology and behaviour.

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Boron

Boron is a chemical element; it has symbol B and atomic number 5.

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Calcium

Calcium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ca and atomic number 20.

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Calorie

The calorie is a unit of energy that originated from the caloric theory of heat.

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Carbohydrate

A carbohydrate is a biomolecule consisting of carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) atoms, usually with a hydrogen–oxygen atom ratio of 2:1 (as in water) and thus with the empirical formula (where m may or may not be different from n), which does not mean the H has covalent bonds with O (for example with, H has a covalent bond with C but not with O).

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Caucasian race

The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, Europid, or Europoid) is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race.

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Centropyge

Centropyge is a genus of ray-finned fish, marine angelfish belonging to the family Pomacanthidae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.

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Coconut Island (Oahu Island)

Coconut Island, or Moku o Loe, is a 28-acre (113,000 m²) island in Kāneʻohe Bay off the island of Oʻahu in the state of Hawaiʻi, United States.

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Contiguous United States

The contiguous United States (officially the conterminous United States) consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states and the District of Columbia of the United States of America in central North America.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.

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Cystocarp

A cystocarp is the fruiting structure produced in the red algae after fertilization, especially such a structure having a special protective envelope (as in Polysiphonia).

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Decomposition

Decomposition or rot is the process by which dead organic substances are broken down into simpler organic or inorganic matter such as carbon dioxide, water, simple sugars and mineral salts.

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Detritus

In biology, detritus is dead particulate organic material, as distinguished from dissolved organic material.

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DKH

Degrees of german carbonate hardness (°dKH or; the dKH is from the German deutsche Karbonathärte) is a unit of water hardness, specifically for temporary or carbonate hardness.

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Edible seaweed

Edible seaweed, or sea vegetables, are seaweeds that can be eaten and used for culinary purposes.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Epiphyte

An epiphyte is a plant or plant-like organism that grows on the surface of another plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it.

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ʻEwa Beach, Hawaii

Ewa Beach or simply Ewa is a census-designated place (CDP) located in Ewa District and the City & County of Honolulu along the coast of Māmala Bay on the leeward side of Ookinaahu in Hawaii.

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Fish market

A fish market is a marketplace for selling fish and fish products.

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Fluorescence

Fluorescence is one of two kinds of emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation.

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Fringing reef

A fringing reef is one of the three main types of coral reef.

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Fruit (plant structure)

Fruits are the mature ovary or ovaries of one or more flowers.

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A gametangium (gametangia) is an organ or cell in which gametes are produced that is found in many multicellular protists, algae, fungi, and the gametophytes of plants.

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Gonimoblast

A gonimoblast is a type of cell produced by red algae upon the fertilization of a zygotic nucleus, and involved in the formation of carpospores.

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Gracilaria

Gracilaria, also known as irish moss or ogonori, is a genus of red algae in the family Gracilariaceae. Gracilaria parvispora and Gracilaria are edible algae, Gracilariales, marine biota of North America and seaweeds.

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Gracilaria coronopifolia

Gracilaria coronopifolia, also known as limu manauea in Hawaiian, or ogo in Japanese, is a species of edible red algae (Rhodophyta) endemic to Hawai'i. Gracilaria parvispora and Gracilaria coronopifolia are Gracilariales.

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Hauʻula, Hawaii

Hauula is a census-designated place and rural community in the Koolauloa District on the island of Ookinaahu, City & County of Honolulu.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.

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Hawaii Pacific University

Hawaii Pacific University (HPU) is a private university in downtown Honolulu, Makapuʻu and Kāneʻohe, Hawaiokinai.

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Hawaiian Islands

The Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiian: Mokupuni Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll.

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Hawaiian language

Hawaiian (Ōlelo Hawaii) is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiokinai, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed.

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Hayward, California

Hayward is a city located in Alameda County, California, United States, in the East Bay subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.

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Hokukano-Ualapue Complex

The Hokukano-Ualapue Complex is a National Historic Landmarked pre-contact archaeological site on several properties adjacent to Hawaii Route 450 in Ualapue, on Molokaʻi island.

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Holdfast (biology)

A holdfast is a root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms, such as seaweed, other sessile algae, stalked crinoids, benthic cnidarians, and sponges, to the substrate.

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Honolulu

Honolulu is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean.

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Introduced species

An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.

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Invasive species

An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element.

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Isabella Abbott

Isabella Aiona Abbott (June 20, 1919 – October 28, 2010) was an educator, phycologist, and ethnobotanist from Hawaii.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

Kailua-Kona is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States.

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Kaunakakai, Hawaii

Kaunakakai is a census-designated place (CDP) in Maui County, Hawaiokinai, United States.

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Kāneʻohe Bay

Kāneohe Bay, at, is the largest sheltered body of water in the main Hawaiian Islands.

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Korea

Korea (translit in South Korea, or label in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula (label in South Korea, or label in North Korea), Jeju Island, and smaller islands.

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Limu (algae)

Limu, otherwise known as rimu, remu or imu (from Proto-Austronesian *limut) is a general Polynesian term for edible plants living underwater, such as seaweed, or plants living near water, like algae. Gracilaria parvispora and Limu (algae) are algae of Hawaii and Hawaiian cuisine.

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Lipid

Lipids are a broad group of organic compounds which include fats, waxes, sterols, fat-soluble vitamins (such as vitamins A, D, E and K), monoglycerides, diglycerides, phospholipids, and others.

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List of marine aquarium plant species

Aquatic plants are used to give the aquarium a natural appearance, oxygenate the water, and provide habitat for fish, especially fry (babies) and for invertebrates.

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Lyngbya majuscula

Lyngbya majuscula is a species of filamentous cyanobacteria in the genus Lyngbya.

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Magnesium

Magnesium is a chemical element; it has symbol Mg and atomic number 12.

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Manganese

Manganese is a chemical element; it has symbol Mn and atomic number 25.

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Mariculture

Mariculture, sometimes called marine farming or marine aquaculture, is a branch of aquaculture involving the cultivation of marine organisms for food and other animal products, in seawater.

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Marine aquarium

A marine aquarium is an aquarium that keeps marine plants and animals in a contained environment.

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Micronutrient

Micronutrients are essential dietary elements required by organisms in varying quantities to regulate physiological functions of cells and organs.

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Mineral (nutrient)

In the context of nutrition, a mineral is a chemical element.

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Molokai

Molokai (Hawaiian: Molokaʻi) is the fifth most populated of the eight major islands that make up the Hawaiian Islands archipelago in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

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Necrosis

Necrosis is a form of cell injury which results in the premature death of cells in living tissue by autolysis.

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Nitrate

Nitrate is a polyatomic ion with the chemical formula.

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Nitrogen

Nitrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol N and atomic number 7.

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Nutritional value

Nutritional value or nutritive value as part of food quality is the measure of a well-balanced ratio of the essential nutrients carbohydrates, fat, protein, minerals, and vitamins in items of food or diet concerning the nutrient requirements of their consumer.

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Oahu

Oahu (Hawaiian: Oʻahu) is the most populated and third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands.

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Overexploitation

Overexploitation, also called overharvesting, refers to harvesting a renewable resource to the point of diminishing returns.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Pet store

A pet shop or pet store is an essential services retailer which sells animals and pet care resources to the public.

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PH

In chemistry, pH, also referred to as acidity or basicity, historically denotes "potential of hydrogen" (or "power of hydrogen").

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Phosphate

In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid.

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Phosphorus

Phosphorus is a chemical element; it has symbol P and atomic number 15.

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Pit connection

In algal anatomy, a pit connection is a hole in the septum between two algal cells, and is found only in multicellular red algae − specifically in the subphylum Eurhodophytina, except haploid Bangiales.

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Poke (dish)

Poke (Hawaiian for 'to slice' or 'cut crosswise into pieces'; sometimes anglicised as poké to aid pronunciation as two syllables) is a dish of diced raw fish tossed in sauce and served either as an appetizer or a main course.

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Potassium

Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number19.

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Protein (nutrient)

Proteins are essential nutrients for the human body.

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Red algae

Red algae, or Rhodophyta, make up one of the oldest groups of eukaryotic algae.

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Refugium (fishkeeping)

In fishkeeping, a refugium is an appendage to a marine, brackish, or freshwater fish tank that shares the same water supply.

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Relative density

Relative density, also called specific gravity, is a dimensionless quantity defined as the ratio of the density (mass of a unit volume) of a substance to the density of a given reference material.

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Riboflavin

Riboflavin, also known as vitamin B2, is a vitamin found in food and sold as a dietary supplement.

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Salinity

Salinity is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water, called saline water (see also soil salinity).

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Salt Lake, Hawaii

Salt Lake is a neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii on the island of O‘ahu.

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San Ignacio Lagoon

San Ignacio Lagoon (Laguna San Ignacio) is a lagoon located in Mulegé Municipality of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, 59 kilometers (37 mi) from San Ignacio, Mexico, and Highway 1.

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Seahorse

A seahorse (also written sea-horse and sea horse) is any of 46 species of small marine bony fish in the genus Hippocampus.

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Seaweed

Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae. Gracilaria parvispora and Seaweed are edible algae and seaweeds.

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Seaweed farming

Seaweed farming or kelp farming is the practice of cultivating and harvesting seaweed. Gracilaria parvispora and seaweed farming are seaweeds.

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Siganidae

Siganidae, the rabbitfishes, are a small family of ray-finned fishes in the order Perciformes.

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Silt

Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay and composed mostly of broken grains of quartz.

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Spore

In biology, a spore is a unit of sexual (in fungi) or asexual reproduction that may be adapted for dispersal and for survival, often for extended periods of time, in unfavourable conditions.

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Sulfur

Sulfur (also spelled sulphur in British English) is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16.

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Thallus

Thallus (thalli), from Latinized Greek, meaning "a green shoot" or "twig", is the vegetative tissue of some organisms in diverse groups such as algae, fungi, some liverworts, lichens, and the Myxogastria.

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Trace element

A trace element is a chemical element of a minute quantity, a trace amount, especially used in referring to a micronutrient, but is also used to refer to minor elements in the composition of a rock, or other chemical substance.

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Transplanting

In agriculture and gardening, transplanting or replanting is the technique of moving a plant from one location to another.

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University of Arizona

The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona.

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University of Hawaiʻi

The University of Hawaiʻi System (University of Hawaiʻi and popularly known as UH) is a public college and university system.

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Zinc

Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30.

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See also

Algae of Hawaii

Edible algae

Gracilariales

Marine biota of North America

Marine fauna of the Gulf of California

Seaweeds

Species described in 1985

Taxa named by Isabella Abbott

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracilaria_parvispora

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