Plankton

Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection are concepts well known by most people. Evolution being a change in a population over time and natural selection essentially coming down to survival of the fittest and being a key mechanism of evolution. In the case of seahorses, rather the 54 species of marine fishes in the genus Hippocampus, the male and female seahorses have evolved a series of unusual adaptations for the purpose of increasing their overall fitness. A common misconception…

How mankind is razing the beauty of nature down with its action! What has become the world we have been living on for thousands of years? It started with dinosaurs and a meteor end it. Then a new beginning raise, mankind was born. The right terminology to define humans is that they come from the ape’s branch but what set them apart is their complex brain which function as a gun with unlimited power to imagination and creation. They have abuse that power thru so many decades that nowadays is…

adhesive. Now, of course we use it to make a whole range of products from gasoline to Vaseline, rubber, plastics, pantyhose, parachutes, paint, detergents, antifreeze, golf balls, and more. Bitumen occurs where vast amounts of living material (plankton, diatoms, or plant material…

eaten. In experiments, when presented with a colony of polyps that had just fed and a colony that was "empty," the sea slugs ate twice as many of the polyps that were full of zooplankton. In fact, kleptopredation provides the nudibranchs with enough plankton to account for about half of their diet, overturning previous claims that polyps were the nudibranchs' primary food source, according to the study. Their findings hint that nudibranchs may not be the only marine creatures to use this…

Wolf wrote in her article that, “Our greenhouse gas emissions are also causing the oceans to become acidic, which threatens the entire ocean food web from plankton to penguins.” (8). The ocean environment is slowly becoming acidic and not suitable for certain species and that is going to cause major fallout to many species, like tiny plankton but also…

Today in America we have many exotic species that are introduced into our environment. Some of these species have been introduced on purpose and others by mistake. Other species are introduced into our ecosystem to help control a pest and others are introduced because they make good game to hunt or fish. Species that are considered to be an invasive species are labeled that because they have potential to harm and can spread aggressively. Invasive species can come around in a multitude of…

Celia. Since clones are disliked he is found and taken to the “Big House” as a prisoner and where he continues to live even once freed until he realizes El Patron wants Matt to harvest his heart. He flees to Aztlan but is forced into slavery as a plankton factory worker until he can escape with three other boys and makes it back to Opium where he lives as ruler after El Patron dies from heart failure. Farmer focused deeply on metaphors and similes to show Matt’s thinking, to draw attention to…

them grow. They also help make air in the dirt. The destruction of fiddler crab colonies damages the places they live in. Fiddler crabs help the places they live in, just by living there. Fiddler crabs only eat small things, like algae, shrimp, plankton,…

these conditions have not been beneficial to many of the organisms who live in close range to the surface of the lake. While solar energy is the main form for aquatic ecosystems, marine plankton allows the transfer of energy between different trophic levels in saltwater ecosystems (San Martin et al., 2006). Plankton plays a key role in oceanic changes as the primary biological sequestration of carbon out of the atmosphere into surface waters. Phytoplankton plays a huge role in the transfer of…

Burning of fossil fuels and deforestation are two major factors of human activities that contribute to the increment of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution. The carbon dioxide is absorbed into the ocean resulting in a process called ocean acidification. It is a process where the carbon dioxide released dissolves into the ocean changing the chemistry of the ocean and leads to decrease in the pH of the ocean making the ocean more acidic. Ocean acidification is…