Sentences with phrase «photosynthetic algae»

But enormous blooms of photosynthetic algae also cover the snow - strewn ice sheet every summer.

Corals are communities of animals that have tiny photosynthetic algae living inside them in a mutually beneficial relationship.

About 2.7 billion years ago, photosynthetic algae in the oceans started making their mark, taking in carbon dioxide as fuel and sending the by - product — oxygen — skyward.

The work is part of a growing field called optogenetics, and used light - activated proteins from photosynthetic algae to switch nerve cells on and off.

The Great Barrier Reef has repeatedly fallen victim to bleaching in recent years, a phenomenon in which increased sea temperatures — blamed by some on climate change — result in the coral which make up the reef emitting photosynthetic algae.

The corals eat but don't digest these single - celled photosynthetic algae, which then reside inside the corals and feed them the carbon sugars created during photosynthesis.

«Coral breaching, in which symbiotic photosynthetic algae of corals are killed by high temperatures and coral reefs are severely damaged, is regarded as a serious environmental issue, but plausibly, similar phenomena may be ubiquitously found in the ecosystem,» said Dr. Fukatsu.

Unlike shallow - water corals, which rely on photosynthetic algae and sunlight to grow, deep - sea corals get energy from filtering organic material that falls from the surface.

«The two species we picked to analyze [Globigerinoides ruber and G. sacculifer] are both ones that are around today, and the living animals actually have photosynthetic algae as symbionts, which means that they live in the surface ocean, since the algae require sunlight to survive,» Tripati explains.

We are partnering with Synthetic Genomics, Inc., led by Dr. J. Craig Venter who famously sequenced and analyzed the human genome, to research the production of biofuels from photosynthetic algae.

So just as different cells in a leaf contain different amounts of chlorophyll, coral cells seem to house different amounts of the photosynthetic algae that makes their food, Symbiodinium.

Photosynthetic algae living within the polyps provide the coral with energy, its vibrant colors, and protection against the acidic byproducts of its respiration.

The only year - round inhabitants are photosynthetic algae and tiny shrimp that thrive in the brine.

Drops in pH signal more acidic waters, which can hinder a coral's ability to build its skeleton, while extreme warmth can make it expel the photosynthetic algae that provide much of its food energy.

It demonstrates that in the photosynthetic alga Chlamydomonas, the protein ferredoxin - 5 is critical for growth in dark and for proper membrane organization.