Sentences with phrase «celled ocean organisms»

The only time period that remotely resembles the ocean changes happening today, based on geologic records, was 56 million years ago when carbon mysteriously doubled in the atmosphere, global temperatures rose by approximately six degrees and ocean pH dropped sharply, driving up ocean acidity and causing a mass extinction among single - celled ocean organisms.

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Foraminifera, small single - celled marine organisms, form their shells in concert with the ocean's temperature and chemistry.

Organisms that surprisingly survived the harsh 7,000 - kilometer journey across the Pacific Ocean on 634 items of tsunami debris ranged from 52 - centimeter - long fish (a Western Pacific yellowtail amberjack) to microscopic single - celled protists.

Organisms, including the single - celled bacteria living in the ocean at that early date, need a steady supply of phosphorus, but «it's very hard to account for this phosphorus unless it is eroding from the continents,» says Aaron Satkoski, a scientist in the geoscience department at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

The oceans comprise the world's largest ecosystem, and cyanobacteria — single - celled organisms that get their energy through photosynthesis — are the keystone group.

The 2.52 billion - year - old sulfur - oxidizing bacteria are described by Czaja as exceptionally large, spherical - shaped, smooth - walled microscopic structures much larger than most modern bacteria, but similar to some modern single - celled organisms that live in deepwater sulfur - rich ocean settings today, where even now there are almost no traces of oxygen.

An entirely new group of organisms discovered at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean are our closest simple - celled relatives ever found.

One - celled plants, the remains of organisms that feed on them, and fecal matter sink, by force of gravity, into the deep ocean.

In an algae - eat - algae world, it's the single - celled photosynthetic organisms at the top (layer of the ocean) that absorb the most sunlight.

Did you know that there are single - celled organisms that produce up to 90 % of the Earth's oxygen, help purify the ocean, are the food source for some of the longest - living species on the planet and can reproduce multiple times per day?

Presenting large - scale installations that resemble elements of nature under a microscope and cell - like forms or organisms from the depths of the ocean, Donovan's body of work derives from recognisable everyday items, such as Scotch Tape, drinking straws, paper - plates, needles, plastic rods and toothpicks.

So there is the first bit of information: If you do not believe that the climate is warming on a global scale then in terms of evolution you are less knowledgeable about your environment (less intelligent) then the great majority of animals, plants, insects, and even ocean dwelling single celled organisms like plankton.

These single - celled organisms are the principal agents of photosynthetic carbon fixation in the ocean.

Bacterioplankton may be very abundant, numbering about 3.1 × 1028 single - celled organisms in the world ocean.