Sentences with phrase «understood lichens»
For some 140 years, scientists have understood lichens to be a symbiosis between a fungus, which provides a physical structure and supplies moisture, and a photosynthesizing alga or cyanobacterium, which produces nutrients.
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Symbiotic Cooperation was a residency, exhibition and project designed to investigate how humans can collaborate with, understand, and mimic small unassuming forms in nature - specifically lichen.