PDF-[DOWNLOAD] - Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us

No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae In Slime Ruth Kassinger gives this underappreciated group its due Elizabeth Kolbert Say algae and most people think of pond scum What they dont know is that without algae none of us would exist There are as many algae on Earth as stars in the universe and they have been essential to life on our planet for eons Algae created the Earth we know today with its oxygenrich atmosphere abundant oceans and coral reefs Crude oil is made of dead algae and algae are the ancestors of all plants Today seaweed production is a multibillion dollar industry with algae hard at work to make your sushi chocolate milk beer paint toothpaste shampoo and so much more InSlimewell meet the algae innovators working toward a sustainable future from seaweed farmers in South Korea to scientists using it to clean the dead zones in our waterways to the entrepreneurs fighting to bring algae fuel and plastics to market With a multitude of lively surprising science and history Ruth Kassinger takes readers on an aroundtheworld behindthescenes and intothekitchen tour Whether you thought algae was just the gunk in your fish tank or you eat seaweed with your oatmeal Slime will delight and amaze with its stories of the good the bad and the upandcoming. Algae Algae have been used in animal and human diets since very early times Filamentous algae are usually considered as macrophytes since they often form floating masses that can be easily harvested although many c !. An Introduction to Polymers. Sharon Elementary Science Night. A polymer is a chemical compound or mixture of compounds consisting of repeating structural units. Polymers are made from smaller compounds called monomers, joined together in a chemical reaction.. 2. Laboratory 4. BIOL 171. Lab Study 3A: . Amoebozoans. Amoeba . proteus. Pseudopodia. – temporary extensions of amoeboid cells, function in moving and engulfing food. Slime Molds (. Mycetozoa. ) (again). 2. Laboratory 4. BIOL 171. Note: . T. he PowerPoint in lab will be abridged so you have more time. Please take a few minutes to read this thoroughly. Thanks!. Lab Study E: . Amoebozoans. Amoeba . proteus. 2013. The Algae: Plantlike Protists. The Algae: Plantlike Protists. http://university.uog.edu/botany/474/fw/pandorina.htm. Algae are . autotrophs. .. Algae may be . unicellular. or . multicellular. .. By Mark . Zhou and . Asad. . Zaheer. Structure. May live in colonies. Store energy as starch. Stacked thylakoids. Cell walls made of cellulose. Most have flagella. Red color from . phycoerythrin. . : . Rhizaria. What Is A . Protist. ?. Protist. means “the very first”. They are mostly unicellular, but some are . multicellular. (algae). . Protists. can be heterotrophic or autotrophic. . Most . 2. . Animals. 3. . Fungi. 4. . Archaebacteria. 5. . Eubacteria. 6. . PROTISTA. Kingdom Protista. FUNGUS-LIKE PROTISTS… The slime molds and water molds. PLANT-LIKE PROTISTS……. The Algae. ANIMAL LIKE PROTISTS…. The protozoa. Shuntarou. . Oishi. . 　　. . Haruka. . Tsuruoka. 　　. . 　　. Miku. . Nariyama. 　. . 　　. . Haruka. Nishimura. Summary. Slime . mold . naturally avoids . c. hemical . substances that it dislikes.. ). Protists. are….. organisms that cannot be classified into any other group (plant, animal, fungus, bacteria). o. rganisms that are typically made up of just one cell. o. rganisms that can be made up of many cells. type I). Also K/as. Mad rat disease. Black death. Mahamari. Pestilential fever. Buboes. Pest. "Black death" inspired one of the most enduring nursery rhymes in the English language, “Ring a Ring . ) is a plant-like organism that uses sunlight to produce energy in a process called . photosynthesis. . Algae are extremely important organisms because they are considered to be the primary oxygen-producing organisms on Earth. all. . shapes . and sizes. . Algae . are not plants, even though they sometimes look . like. . them. . . They . are all referred to as algae, the . red. , green and brown . algae. . are . chlorophyllus. . thallophytes. that can manufacture their own food and they produce oxygen during photosynthesis. So they are called as autotrophic . thallophytes. .. The term . thallus. is used for plant body that is not differentiated into root, stem and leaves. Lacks vascular system..