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it turns out that Cara remembered after class that mushrooms are an excellent organism used for bioremediation, including of radioactive contamination! Here is a paper that describes some of this use and how fungi survive ionizing radiation:
For Our Real-Life Zombies Discussion (killer fungi seem to fit well under this umbrella topic):
Cordyceps: attack of the killer fungi - Planet Earth Attenborough BBC wildlife
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Alex Mowry
Aug 26, 2015
Nice!