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Horseshoe Crab

Horseshoe crabs- important to the bio-medical industry because of their unique, copper-based blue blood contains a substance which coagulates in the presence of small amounts of bacterial toxins, is used to test for sterility of medical equipment and virtually all intravenous drugs.

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Uploaded on March 15, 2015
Taken on March 14, 2015