Nicholas P. Money
Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Author
Born
in Oxford, The United Kingdom
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Genre
Influences
Hermann Melville
Member Since
April 2017
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The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization
12 editions
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2017
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Fungi: A Very Short Introduction
3 editions
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2016
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Mushroom
4 editions
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2011
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The Selfish Ape: Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction
7 editions
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2019
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The Amoeba in the Room: Lives of the Microbes
13 editions
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published
2014
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Microbiology: A Very Short Introduction
7 editions
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published
2014
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Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard: The Mysterious World of Mushrooms, Molds, and Mycologists
7 editions
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published
2002
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The Triumph of the Fungi: A Rotten History
9 editions
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2006
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Mushrooms: A Natural and Cultural History
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Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines: Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi
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“If a sample of soil is diluted, mixed with bacteria, and spread on agar, the phages will dot the culture with plaques after 24 hours of incubation. These plaques may be initiated by more than one phage, and the students engage in further rounds of isolation and bacterial infection to ensure that they have purified single phages. After many more steps in this lengthy procedure, the students purify and sequence the phage DNA, and can submit their sequences to an online database.”
― The Amoeba in the Room: Lives of the Microbes
― The Amoeba in the Room: Lives of the Microbes
“The absence of archaea is puzzling given their evident fondness for the worst imaginable conditions on earth and ability to power ecosystems on the slimmest of organic rations. The”
― The Amoeba in the Room: Lives of the Microbes
― The Amoeba in the Room: Lives of the Microbes
“The average human comprises forty trillion eukaryotic cells and an accompanying microbiome of a hundred trillion bacteria, mostly in the gut, and one quadrillion viruses. We are, in raw cell numbers, more microbe than mammal.”
― Microbiology: A Very Short Introduction
― Microbiology: A Very Short Introduction