Sentences with phrase «algae turns»

The loss of algae turns corals white and makes them more susceptible to disease.

Once the coral has lost its algae it turns white.

SNOW DECORATION Algae turn the snow pink and red on parts of Alaska's Harding Icefield.

Algae turn black when it decays.

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Algae is unique because it's highly efficient at turning sunlight, water and CO2 into vitamins and nutrients, more than any other crop.

Corals, in turn, depend upon single - celled algae that inhabit them, providing most of their food and giving them their color.

But scientists are now turning to the natural sunscreen of algae — which is also found in fish slime — to make a novel kind of shield against the sun's rays that could protect not only people, but also textiles and outdoor materials.

Turn it on to help control algae and eliminate bad bacteria and viruses.

In turn, giant kelp positively affected the sessile invertebrates — sponges and sea squirts — that live on the bottom but can often be outcompeted for space by algae.»

The addition of seawater might cause algae to grow out of control, choking out microorganisms better suited to a saltier environment, or turning the water red.

If the algae don't return, the corals eventually turn bone white and die.

Hawaii even has an ongoing effort to turn ocean thermal energy conversion technology into a reality, as well as an actual algal agriculture industry — the algae are largely grown for nutraceutical purposes but have also been turned into jet fuel on the mainland by UOP.

Algae can also be used for biomanufacturing: Microscopic algae are turned into a living machine that can be genetically programmed to produce molecules like lipids and hydrocarbons ideally suited for biofAlgae can also be used for biomanufacturing: Microscopic algae are turned into a living machine that can be genetically programmed to produce molecules like lipids and hydrocarbons ideally suited for biofalgae are turned into a living machine that can be genetically programmed to produce molecules like lipids and hydrocarbons ideally suited for biofuels.

Corals turn white, like these off the island of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, when warming waters cause them to expel the algae living inside them.

The blooming leads to a runaway effect: The more glaciers and snow fields thaw the more algae bloom which in turn results in a darkening of the surface which again accelerates melting.

When the water gets too warm, the corals expel or consume the algae, and turn white.

It has been known for quite some time that red pigmented snow algae blooming on icy surfaces darken the surface which in turn leads to less albedo and a higher uptake of heat.

It turns out that algae have evolved a way to make Rubisco run faster.

The scent is believed to be partly due to their fats and partly to the pink as taxanthins salmon acquire from eating crustaceans, which in turn create them from the beta - carotene they've obtained from algae.

For the ocean's tiny grazing animals, the microscopic algae called diatoms are a favorite food — and like most delicacies, they are turning out to be hazardous.

HERMITAGE Castle near Hawick in the Scottish Borders is under siege from algae that turn the stonework orange.

During their journey, the young polar cod feed on amphipod crustaceans, which in turn feed on ice algae.

Researchers in Hawaii found that guppies released in the 1920s drove down native fish populations, perhaps by competing with them for food and living space, and had likely changed the cycle of nutrients in water: Guppy - rich areas showed increased levels of dissolved nitrogen — from ammonium in fish urine and gill excretions — which, in turn, stimulated algae growth.

The key ingredient turned out to be chemicals called terpenes, which some algae use to sicken fish that feed on them.

These algae then creep in, extending their tendrils over close to 60 % of the ocean bottom, Hay estimates, and turning waters a sludgy green.

COLORLESS Bleaching removes the algae that feed corals and give them their color, turning vibrant reefs barren.

Bleaching happens when stressed corals expel their life - providing algae, turning reefs stark white as their skeletons show through.

Chapman counters that they might concentrate their diet on a blue - green algae, Microcystis, which the mussels don't eat, or turn to a clumpy, shoreline algae known as Cladophora.

As expected, fertilizer increased the amount of algae in the tanks, which in turn swelled the number of snails.

Regardless of construction method, artificial reefs are generally designed to provide hard surfaces to which algae and invertebrates such as barnacles, corals, and oysters attach; the accumulation of attached marine life in turn provides intricate structure and food for assemblages of fish.

But intensive DNA sequencing of four species of this alga did not turn up any plastid; nor did the alga's main genome have any of the genes typically needed to keep a plastid genome running smoothly.

Later it turned into a parasite and the alga was lost, but some of its genes moved into the nucleus.»

When researchers conceived of turning algae into diesel fuel three decades ago, the idea sounded like something out of the old sci - fi movie Soylent Green.

Many researchers have studied how stress causes coral to expel their algae and turn white, a phenomenon called bleaching.

The chlorella algae in the five - metre - high coil of polyvinyl chloride tubes absorb nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphate from the effluent and turn them into protein.

But rather than searching for ways to stretch the oil we still have — like a modern Hanukkah — it makes more sense to accelerate development of clean alternatives such as electric cars or biofuels from algae — and avoid dirty ones like turning coal or tar sands to liquid fuels.

Without algae, corals turn white; the phenomenon is thus referred to as «coral bleaching.»

These nutrients act like fertilizer, triggering blooms of algae, which, in turn, sometimes feed blooms of salps.

But even though it looked superficially like many green algae, the seaweed turned out to be only very distantly related to any other macroscopic green algae or land plant.

As it turns out, the mutant alga also exhibited aberrant organization of cellular membranes when maintained in the dark, but did not exhibit them when maintained in the light.

Sperm whale poop helps fertilize algae, which in turn suck up carbon dioxide via photosynthesis.

Iron encourages the bloom of tiny algae called phytoplankton, which take in carbon dioxide (CO2) dissolved in the ocean for photosynthesis; that process in turn draws atmospheric CO2 into the surface waters.

These marble - sized gelatinous sacs quickly turn green (bottom left and top right images) as photosynthesizing algae grow around the developing embryo and feast on its waste.

Synthetic biologists at Clemson University in South Carolina are working with NASA to use algae and genetically modified yeast to turn astronaut urine into 3 - D printable plastics and nutritional omega - 3 fats.

In turn, the embryo enjoys the oxygen produced by the algae.

By the time the algae reach the other end of the pipe, they have turned into an algae - rich soup ready for conversion into fuel.

Since the algae also give corals their color, the algae-less corals turn ghostly white - they bleach.

«While conventional silicon - based solar cells are more efficient than algae - powered cells in the fraction of the sun's energy they turn to electrical energy, there are attractive possibilities with other types of materials,» says Professor Christopher Howe from the Department of Biochemistry.