Why does mold have different colors?
Moment Of Um
Lemonada Media
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🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:06.6 | Answering those questions that make you go, um, um, moment of um, um, come to you from APM Studios. I'm Eunice the unicorn. |
| 0:31.4 | Um. |
| 0:33.8 | Hi, hello. I'm Eunice. Oh, I said that already. Um, okay, well, some fun facts about me. I sneeze sparkles. I love grapes. And, oh, and my favorite color is rainbow. Yep. Okay. Is that cheating? Because it's all the colors? Nah, I'm magic. I can do what I want. |
| 0:59.0 | Oh, and I'm not just a magic unicorn. I said I was a unicorn, right? Well, I'm not just a magic |
| 1:05.9 | unicorn. I'm also a budding microbiologist. That's just a fancy word for someone who studies really tiny stuff like germs. |
| 1:14.3 | I'm taking microbiology classes at Unicorn U to study all the things cute and tiny. |
| 1:20.4 | Sometimes I combine my love of all the colors and my love of tiny things to make micro-raimbows. |
| 1:27.6 | Here, look in this microscope. See this tiny rainbow? and my love of tiny things to make micro-raimboes. |
| 1:29.4 | Here, look in this microscope. |
| 1:31.8 | See this tiny rainbow? |
| 1:35.8 | Well, it's made of grains of sand from different beaches. |
| 1:40.2 | We got green sand, pink sand, red sand. |
| 1:42.4 | Oh, and see this slide? |
| 1:47.9 | It's my multicolor mold collection. You know, mold, the stuff that grows on old food and in wet places, we've got yellow mold, white, green, pink. My favorite is all of them. |
| 1:57.0 | Do you know why there are lots of different colors? No, I'm really asking, do you know why? |
| 2:02.0 | Because I have no idea. |
| 2:04.1 | My pal Max asked too, why does mold have different colors? |
| 2:08.5 | Let's ask someone who knows a lot about this. |
| 2:13.8 | If you like molds to some degree, they're kind of pretty because they have lots of colors. |
| 2:18.3 | I'm Jonathan Schilling at the University of Minnesota in the College of Biological Sciences. |
| 2:25.3 | For one, the fungi are more similar to us than they are to plants. |
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