Sentences with phrase «called cyanobacteria»

Many scientists who study evolution blame one particular organism called cyanobacteria.

These are glued together into a mat of tiny organisms called cyanobacteria.

Also called cyanobacteria or blue - green algae, these organisms help turn carbon dioxide to oxygen in the atmosphere.

Using nondestructive neutron scattering techniques, scientists are examining how single - celled organisms called cyanobacteria produce oxygen and obtain energy through photosynthesis.

In the Swedish researcher's case, the target was a beam of live blue - green algae, called cyanobacteria.

In these leaves, Azolla have created a microenvironment, co-evolving with tiny bacteria called cyanobacteria for an estimated 100 million years.

«This will eventually lead to a greater prevalence of blue - green algae called cyanobacteria which fix atmospheric nitrogen,» he added.

Not exact matches

For eons, the mineral iron, which once saturated oceans, likely bonded with phosphorus, and sank it down to dark ocean depths, far away from those shallows — also called continental margins — where cyanobacteria would have needed it to thrive and make oxygen.

The presumed red algae lie embedded in fossil mats of cyanobacteria, called stromatolites, in 1.6 billion - year - old Indian phosphorite.

Out of the vast diversity of plankton in the oceans, the worst offenders are a few species of diatoms, dinoflagellates and cyanobacteria, collectively called harmful algae.

Wynn - Williams will soon use a mini Raman spectrometer — called a CMaRS — that he can carry into the field in his backpack to detect the fossilized pigments of ancient cyanobacteria.

Two are caused by dinoflagellate species, Prorocentrum minimum and Kalrodinium veneficum, and the third by cyanobacteria, sometimes called blue - green algae.

One type of cyanobacteria, called spirulina, is high in vitamins and minerals and is used as a natural food dye for candy and gum.

The cyanobacteria timekeeper is based on a gene cluster called kaiABC and the molecular fuel ATP.

Since the 1950s, biologists have known that photosynthetic cyanobacteria make microcompartments, called carboxysomes, which house an important photosynthesis enzyme.

Fossils of red algae were found in rocks from Chitrakoot in central India embedded in mats of cyanobacteria, called stromatolites.

This name is convenient for talking about organisms in the water that make their own food, but does not reflect any relationship between the cyanobacteria and other organisms called algae.

Because they are photosynthetic and aquatic, cyanobacteria are often called «blue - green algae».

Just like plants, cyanobacteria can produce energy out of sunlight, via the process called photosynthesis.

An urgent call detours the divers farther north to Stuart, Florida, where they discover a formidable opponent, toxic blue - green algae, also known as cyanobacteria.

Species of cyanobacteria in the genera Synechococcus and Synechocystis are known to be the catalysts of a phenomenon called «whitings», which is the formation and precipitation of fine - grained CaCO3 particles.

Chinese and US researchers report in Science journal that, according to their experiments, it became more difficult for a type of cyanobacteria called Trichodesmium to «fix» nitrogen in seawater that had been made more acid by carbon dioxide.