Sentences with phrase «photosynthetic microbes»

Along with weather and geologic processes on Earth removed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the expanding success of photosynthetic microbes eventually created so much atmospheric oxygen and depleted methane and carbon dioxide levels to such an extent that the greenhouse effect may have become negligible around Year 2.1 billion, chilling the young Earth (Gabrielle Walker, New Scientist, 1999); and Evans and Kirschvink, 1997).

Venter and other scientists are experimenting with photosynthetic microbes such as algae and cyanobacteria (sometimes referred to as blue - green algae).

Warmer waters also put them under stress, making them expel photosynthetic microbes that provide most of their energy as well as their vibrant colours, leaving them a bleached white.

Photosynthetic microbes filled the atmosphere with oxygen billions of years ago but they renovated the planet without awareness.

Some plants, such as soybeans, also store fats and can be used as fuel sources, but Bruce Rittmann, Vermaas's colleague at Arizona State, argues that photosynthetic microbes produce nearly 250 times more fat per acre.

Photosynthetic microbes also store plenty of fat, which forms the basis for fuel.

Photosynthetic microbes employ quantum coherence to efficiently channel the incoming energy from photons

Photosynthetic microbes offer other clues to improving photosynthesis in plants, the researchers report.

Efforts to understand natural light harvesting systems in plants and photosynthetic microbes date back at least a century.

Primitive photosynthetic microbes were around and may have played a role in the generation of methane and minor usage of carbon dioxide.

Unicellular photosynthetic microbes — phytoplankton — are responsible for virtually all oceanic primary production, which fuels marine food webs and plays a fundamental role in the global carbon cycle.

These mats are likely composed of, among other bacteria, Chloroflexus, a filamentous photosynthetic microbe (yes, it produces energy from sunlight like plants do!)

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).

A handful of animals live in symbiosis with photosynthetic microbes, but none have been found that harness light directly.

On the other hand, the hardy lichen partnership between fungi and photosynthetic microbes has withstood the vicissitudes of time.

On the other hand, many anaerobic microbes including methanogens are easily poisoned by oxygen, and the recent discovery of banded sediments with rusted iron on Akilia Island in West Greenland suggests that oxygen - producing, photosynthetic microbes (e.g., cyanobacteria) living on the surface of wet areas to gather sunlight may have developed by the end of this geologic period (3.85 billion years ago) despite continuing bombardment from space.

Even more crustal minerals were formed by plate tectonics with the help of lubricating ocean water, atmospheric oxygen from the successful development of photosynthetic microbes, and land - based lichens (of algae and fungi) and mosses which were followed by deep - rooted plants that hastened the erosion and weathering of surface rocks with the help of biochemical action and the creation of soils as well as new clay minerals.

As I wrote in my first book on climate, in 1992, other life forms have had a big influence on the atmosphere (photosynthetic microbes and plants, for instance), but they weren't aware of their potency.