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| Support commercial fisheries around the world |
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| Reef fish and invertebrates are harvested for the aquarium pet trade |
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| Chinese liver fluke (Spread through human feces) |
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| Schistosomiasis:Causes anemia, diarrhea, brain damage |
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| Tapeworm (often found in rare beef) |
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| Multibillion-dollar seafood industry |
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| Filter tremendous amounts of water, helping remove pollutants and cleansing aquatic ecosystems |
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| Critically important in aerating the soil |
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| Leeches used as a medical antiseptic |
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| Worm ranching is a major industry, with sales to both gardeners and fisherman |
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| Aerate the soil (like earthworms) |
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| Recycle bacteria and fungi into animal tissue |
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| Cause over $5 billion crop damage per year (roots) |
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| Several medically important parasites |
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| Many harmful parasitic species |
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| Cause billions of dollars in crop damage |
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| Carry or cause many diseases, such as malaria, typhus, Lyme Disease, and bubonic plague |
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| Critically important herbivores>Primary converters of plant to animal tissue on the planet |
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| Can cause extensive damage to coral reefs |
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| Sea urchin and sea cucumber roe are an Oriental delicacy |
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| Contains one of the cannabinoids (weed chemical) |
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| Uses for fur, hair, and hides (i.e. leather) |
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| Many different types of food (i.e. burgers, eggs, fish etc) |
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| Ability to decompose some of the toughest biomaterials (i.e. chitin and keratin) |
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| Help herbivores digest cellulose |
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| Black Wart Disease in potatoes |
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| Essential for the health and growth of most modern plants (on tree roots) |
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| Were vital to the successful invasion of the land surface by primitive plants |
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| Important food for tundra animals like reindeer |
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| Many are edible (gourmet food) |
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| Changed in history of the Russian empire by decimating large portions of the population in certain areas |
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| May have been the root cause of the Salem witch trials |
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| Primitive living land plants |
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| Important in landscaping and gardening |
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| Seed bed for higher plants |
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| Used for dressing wounds in war |
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| Contain symbiotic colonies of the cyanobacteria (Nostoc and Anabaena) |
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| Natural source of the drug ephridin, which is used to treat hay fever, sinus headaches, and asthma |
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| One of the oldest medicinal plants |
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| Commercial fruits and flowers are multi-billion dollar industries |
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| Angiosperms are the dominant planetary vegetation |
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| Coffee, Chocolate, Wine, Beer |
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| Most agricultural crops are angiosperms |
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| Symbiotic with nitrogen-fixing bacteria |
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| Zamia floridana is the only cycad native to the US and was used by the Seminoles as a source of food |
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| Important for landscaping, and add nitrogen to the soil for other plants |
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| Stems are ground for use as sago flour in many eastern nations |
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| Source of herbal medicine |
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| Used for resin, pitch, turpentine |
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