Essays Tagged: "Cyanobacteria"

How changes in the atmosphere, eukarotes, and multicellularity have occured and influenced life on earth

gen began slowly to accumulate in the atmosphere, as a result of the photosynthetic activity of the cyanobacteria. Those prokaryotes that were able to use oxygen in ATP production gained a strong adva ... und in the far simpler prokaryotes. Many modern organisms contain intracellular symbiotic bacteria, cyanobacteria, or photosynthetic protists, indicating that such associations are not difficult to es ...

(2 pages) 79 1 3.2 Mar/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Atmospheric Sciences

Why Is Science SO Important?

, which contains disastrous natural phenomena and potentially dangerous animals. On the other hand, cyanobacteria, over millions of years, created a human-friendly atmosphere of oxygen that allowed us ...

(2 pages) 53 0 3.7 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Photosynthesis

erotrophs rely on food sources outside of themselves. Photoautotrophs include all green plants, all cyanobacteria, and a few bacteria capable of photosynthesis. Heterotrophs include all animals, all c ... reactions. (272) "Chlorophyll a" is the essential photosynthetic pigment in all plants, algae, and cyanobacteria and has existed unaltered by evolution for about three billion years. (274) Both carbo ...

(2 pages) 68 1 4.3 Sep/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Plant Biology

Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)

Anneka AhmadCyanobacteria (blue-green algae)Algae are very simple chlorophyll-containing organisms. In general, ... en in the water. There are many different types of algae and one type of algae is blue-green algae, cyanobacteria,Cyanobacteria are a much simpler type of cell, compared with the eukaryotic cells whic ... flagellum, capsule, genetic material, thylakoids, nucleoid and mesosomes. However unlike most algae cyanobacteria do not contain a flagellum for movement, it can move by gliding over surfaces or creat ...

(6 pages) 23 0 5.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Studying Photosynthetic Pigments Using TLC Strips to Determine Evolutionary Relatedness Between Cyanobacteria, Rhodophyta, Phaeophyta, Chlorophyta and Angiosperms

xt] Studying Photosynthetic Pigments Using TLC Strips to Determine Evolutionary Relatedness Between Cyanobacteria, Rhodophyta, Phaeophyta, Chlorophyta and AngiospermsIntroductionMany organisms around ... sis. They include organisms such as prokaryotes and eukaryotes, specifically algae (eukaryotes) and cyanobacteria (prokaryotes). In order for eukaryotes to be able to go through the process photosynth ...

(4 pages) 0 0 0.0 Mar/2012

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Algae Research

(5 pages) 3 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology