Sentences with phrase «relied on algae»

Algae has been used by tens of millions of people in Asia for over 50 years — and even Olympic athletes and NASA astronauts have relied on algae for decades as a way to pack a lot of nutrients into a very small volume of food — since algae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetables).

Because «Corals rely on algae that live inside each coral polyp to provide nutrients and supplemental oxygen.

Coral reefs rely on algae - if algae die due to increased ocean temperature coral reefs die - called coral bleaching.

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Instead, sloths outsmart predators by relying on camouflage, such as algae that grows on their fur.

BABY FAT Young cauliflower corals may rely on fat reserves, not algae, for food and therefore could be less sensitive to bleaching than adult corals (shown here), researchers propose.

Its method also relies on natural sunlight, but with a twist: instead of moving the sunlight to the algae, GreenFuel rotates the algae in and out of the sunlight, a process called photomodulation, explains GreenFuel co-founder Isaac Berzin.

But organisms from humans to algae also have another clock that doesn't rely on rhythmic gene expression to keep time, but instead uses the rise and fall of the reactive oxygen molecules that are formed as natural byproducts of metabolism.

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.

Blue - green algae profoundly changed the composition of the atmosphere, adding the oxygen that today's life forms rely on.

Both those ventures rely on genetically - tweaking algae to make it churn out more fuel.

But since corals, be it with an aragonite or a calcite skeleton, both rely on symbiotic algae as their main source of energy they remain vulnerable, since those algae are highly susceptible to both low pH and high temperatures.

Even the models used to describe how phytoplankton production is sustained were driven by relatively simple concepts relying on mechanistic relationships between the algae, water chemistry and physics, and the light environment...