Phytoplankton

The globalized nature of contemporary society resulted in the widespread proliferation of cultural commodities. This is present in the entertainment world, multinational corporations, and even food culture. In developed countries, the cultural palate expanded to include international delicacies. One of these delicacies is modern sushi. This industry began in Japan, but over time it became a global phenomenon in restaurants everywhere. The explosion of this industry placed additional demands on…

Introduction Recently coral bleaching has been regarded as questionable but I do not know what happen by it and what is a coral. A coral is seen as a plant but it is actually animal. It belongs to a sea anemone or a jellyfish family. Corals are classified as reef-building corals or precious corals and it is reef building coral that bleach. Body 1. Why coral reef bleaches and decrease What is a white part of corals? It is a bone. When algae which corals have are lost we can see bones through…

Alexander Fleming “discovered the existence penicillin through a combination of perceptiveness and luck” (Krogh, 2011, p. 398). While he was growing bacteria in a petri dish, he notices the appearance of a type of fungus. The contamination caught the attention of Fleming. He realizes that he had found a substance that had the power to kill bacteria. Fleming continued to grow more fungal mold and tested it on different kind of bacteria. Additionally, he tested it on healthy mice in which he…

Written Assignment An Exemption for Whaling 1. I do not agree with the Norwegian and Japanese position on permitting the hunting of non-endangered species of whales as a cultural exemption. This is due to the fact that although these species of whale are not endangered the demand for their meat is very low at 1% of its peak in the 1960s in Japan (Ramage et al., 2015). Furthermore, this practise of whaling is mainly funded by the taxpayers’ money and is ultimately working at a loss. Subsidies…

The most common plants in the freshwater biome are algae, reeds, underwater plants, and phytoplankton. These plants are important because herbivores and omnivores need them to start basic life because these are found in almost every freshwater biome. And according to the region that they are in, the plantlife increases or decreases. So, now I’ll…

The phytoplankton are the primary producers in the Antarctic ecosystem (Sasso). The zooplankton, also known a krill, are organisms that eat phytoplankton and are (Sasso). Zooplankton are one of many primary consumers in this ecosystem (Winter). Squid eat mainly plankton, krill and fish (Sasso). Squid is also one of many primary…

(the last three zones create the limnetic zone). The littoral zone is the most shallow part of the lake and closest to the shore. It also contains the highest amount of dissolved oxygen and sunlight. The trophogenic and tropholytic zones contain phytoplankton and zooplankton, respectively. Lastly, the profundal zone is the deepest area of a lake, and is inhabited mostly bacteria and fungi that do not require much dissolved oxygen and light to survive (Aune et al., 2016). In the lab, we looked…

“The Walking Dead” series depicts a viral pandemic that destroys civilization and leaves the smallest portion of humanity struggling to survive. In this world, the remaining humans are driven by fear of those whom have been turned into zombies by the virus. While a zombie apocalypse is probably an unlikely eschatological occurrence, the end of life as we know it is surely not. Although it might be difficult to envision a world without clean water, enough oxygen for the masses, and with a viral…

corals lose their food sources and become weak (“What is Happening in the Ocean?”). Many types of plankton are affected by warmer oceans, and researchers found that when ocean temperatures rise, phytoplankton grow, but so do zooplankton and bacteria. The zooplankton grow faster and eat all of the phytoplankton, and this creates a bottleneck in the food chain that could create problems for the ocean’s food web. More than 100 million tons of carbon dioxide is absorbed into the ocean each day (“Sea…

This year marks an anniversary of sorts for the Galapagos achipagio, one that has been happening every seven years since the end of the Ice Age, El Niño. It’s a Darwinian celebration, a natural event that is laden with surprises for some of the islands inhabitants and setbacks for others. The tradition starts with the characteristic cool Humboldt Current being offset by warmer water, effectively cutting off the algae and food supply for the marine iguana, the blue-footed Bobby, sea lions and…