Sentences with phrase «photosynthetic bacteria»

However, the Earth harbors a greater diversity of photosynthetic organisms than vascular plants, and includes algae, cyanobacteria, and anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria, all of which occur in a wide array of colors, due to adaptation and acclimation to different light and chemical environments.

Joule uses a photosynthetic bacteria which is as far removed from green plants as you are removed from mushrooms.

Photosynthetic bacteria did that some 2.5 billion years ago.

However, it's natural for living organisms to trash the planet as they divide and consume — just look at all of the organisms that went extinct over 2 million years ago when selfish photosynthetic bacteria began spewing oxygen into the atmosphere and eradicating countless species of anaerobic bacteria.

When printed in a precise pattern onto carbon nanotubes on paper, these photosynthetic bacteria can produce electricity from sunlight, which could power biodegradable environmental and medical sensors.

Where temperatures are not too hot, photosynthetic bacteria can thrive, like Chloroflexus (orange mats) and Synechococcus (typically green element in orange mats).

Researchers discover that photosynthetic bacteria could help improve heart functions when injected in beating hearts.

Photosynthetic bacteria emerged on Earth more than 3 Gyr ago.

Historically, photosynthetic bacteria pumped oxygen into the oceans for billions of years, setting the stage for complex multicellular life.

This would have enormous implication for subsequent evolution as earth's oceans atmosphere were oxygenated by photosynthetic bacteria creating extensive stromatolitic reefs.

TKF: Tim, I know you're interested in photosynthetic bacteria, how they process energy and grow.

Given at least nine meters (roughly 30 feet) of water on the planet, photosynthetic microbes (including mats of algae, cyanobacteria, and other photosynthetic bacteria) and plant - like protoctists (such as floating seaweed or kelp forests attached to the seafloor) could be protected from «planet - scalding» ultraviolet flares produced by young red dwarf stars, according to Victoria Meadows of Caltech, principal investigator at the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory.

Many of these microbes persist today; for example, blue - green (cyanobacteria) or bright green, photosynthetic bacteria use light from the Sun and chlorophyll to convert carbon dioxide and water into «free» molecular oxygen and carbon, made into essential organic substances such as carbohydrates.

As photosynthetic bacteria prospered and spread, the concentration of oxygen in air and water became abundant as early as Year 2.24 billion (see update from Bekker et al, 2004).

Some of the oxygen produced by photosynthetic bacteria was absorbed (oxidized) by iron dissolved in Earth's oceans.

Subsequently, some aerobic (or oxygen - breathing) protists merged with photosynthetic bacteria, which became chloroplasts and other plastids, to create free - swimming green algae and the precursors of today's plant cells.

We just call them photosynthetic bacteria.

Another is photosynthetic bacteria being ingested to form chloroplasts, which happened several times, giving rise to different lineages of algae.

Acting like miniature trees that soak up sunlight and release oxygen, photosynthetic bacteria injected into the heart may lighten the damage from heart attacks, a new study in rats suggests.

It's one reason that plants and photosynthetic bacteria are so good at it.

However, much of this work is still in its nascent stages,» said Binghamton University Electrical and Computer Science Assistant Professor Seokheun Choi, who is one of the co-authors of «Self - sustaining, solar - driven bioelectricity generation in micro-sized microbial fuel cell using co-culture of heterotrophic and photosynthetic bacteria,» along with PhD candidate Lin Liu.

In natural systems like plants and photosynthetic bacteria, the spatial organization of densely packed chromophores is vital for efficient, directed energy transfer.

The new study determined that much of the ocean's dissolved organic matter is made up of novel polysaccharides — long chains of sugar molecules created by photosynthetic bacteria in the upper ocean.

In a paper released in the November 14, 2016 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, Repeta and colleagues at the University of Hawaii found that much of the ocean's dissolved organic matter is made up of novel polysaccharides — long chains of sugar molecules created by photosynthetic bacteria in the upper ocean.

Most scientists believe photosynthetic bacteria produced the oxygen.

By taking ice samples for the last five winters and analyzing for the chlorophyll produced by algae and photosynthetic bacteria, Twiss and his team have determined that from November to April the Lake experiences great primary productivity, more so than in spring or summer.

Photosynthetic bacteria are the heroes who brought oxygen to our planet.

These massive pile - ups generated mountain chains, and as the mountains eroded, they released nutrients into the oceans, feeding the photosynthetic bacteria.

If these presumed bacteria are direct ancestors of extant photosynthetic bacteria, life was already well developed by then, having passed through the stages that led to the most recent universal ancestor and the splitting of the ancestral lineage into the primary lines of descent.

Sedimentary rocks 3.5 billion years old (and perhaps those 3.8 billion years old) contain what appear to be fossil stromatolites, which are natural colonies formed by photosynthetic bacteria; within the stromalites one can see microscopic forms reminiscent of bacteria.

These nitrogen - fixing, photosynthetic bacteria, also known as blue - green algae, are found in numerous habitats — in soil and lakes as well as the oceans.

As photosynthetic bacteria became more and more populous on ancient Earth, they changed our atmosphere's composition.

Huang teamed up with other researchers to do microfluidics experiments, growing bacteria in tiny chambers and tracking individual cells to learn how photosynthetic bacteria grow in light and dark.

He and colleagues have determined what gives cholera bacteria their curved shape and whether it matters (a polymer protein, and it does matter; the curve makes it easier for cholera to cause disease), how different wavelengths of light affect movement of photosynthetic bacteria (red and green wavelengths encourage movement; blue light stops the microbes in their tracks), how bacteria coordinate cell division machinery and how photosynthetic bacteria's growth changes in light and dark.

To make their discovery, Rust and his colleagues had to separate metabolism from light exposure, and they did this by using a synthetic biology approach to make photosynthetic bacteria capable of living on sugar rather than sunlight.

For photosynthetic bacteria, every night is a period of starvation, and it is likely that the circadian clock helps them grow during the day in order to prepare for nightfall.

Structurally, chlorella is a higher life form than spirulina, Spirulina is classified as a photosynthetic bacterium, while chlorella is a plant with a cell nucleus, making it exactly like the advanced fruits and vegetables we eat everyday.

Not exact matches

Huang's research addresses fundamental questions about the rules bacteria live by — for instance, what determines their shape and how different wavelengths of light affect the movement of photosynthetic microbes (SN: 10/14/17, p. 17).

Jennifer Ogilvie, U-M professor of physics and biophysics, studied photosynthetic reaction centers in purple bacteria.

Over time, the bacteria lost the ability to live independently of the fern, but their photosynthetic machinery increased its nitrogen - fixing capability by a factor of between 12 and 20.

The best explanation, says Hayes, is that these hydrocarbons were formed by «heterotrophic» bacteria, which fed by rotting down the organic material from dead photosynthetic cells.

The oceans of around 1 billion years ago, the researchers argue, were topped by a thin oxygenated layer populated with photosynthetic organisms and heterotrophic bacteria.

Heterotrophic bacteria require oxygen, and the new results suggest that there were enough of them around to mop up most of the oxygen produced by photosynthetic organisms.

Photosynthetic chromatophores are bubbles of liquid that form on the membranes of bacteria that harness sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to produce the energy needed for respiration and other functions.

Because mitochondria and the photosynthetic chloroplasts are derived from joint bacterial ancestors, the study not only contributes to a better understanding of the formation and function of the cells» powerhouses, but also provides new insights into the formation of chloroplasts and bacteria.

Plants and algae, as well as certain fungi and bacteria, also synthesize carotenoids, and in all of these organisms the pigments form part of the photosynthetic machinery.

The pioneering research was performed on a photosynthetic LH1 - RC complex from the bacterium Blastochloris viridis, which can harvest and use light at wavelengths over 1,000 nm.

PYP is a receptor for blue light that is part of the photosynthetic machinery in certain bacteria.

They're photosynthetic ocean bacteria.

Other bacteria use bacteriochlorophyll and other photosynthetic proteins to convert light to metabolic energy.