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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.bio,net.games.chess,net.med
Subject: Re: taka-diastase; rusts
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Date: Tue, 20-May-86 14:58:37 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 20 14:58:37 1986
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In article <1076@ellie.UUCP> colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
>>      I doubt it.  Malaria is caused by a protozoa (Plasmodium vivax).  I
>> can't imagine protozoa producing taka-diastase;
>
>The name "plasmodium" sounds familiar.  Maybe it's a different species
>within the genus?  Come to think of it, "plasmodium" was on that list
>of words that Pillsbury memorized.  That can't be a coincidence.
>
        Actually, it *could* be. The word "plasmodium" has two
different uses in biology. First it is the name of a large genus of
parasitic protozoa(including P. vivax). It is *also* a word used to
refer to the "body" of certain fungi, such as slime molds. Without
more data we cannot tell which way it was being used in the ad.
--

                                Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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