Special Obsevations: Plankton Edition

 In this microscopic picture, we see a zooplankton that is the Micro size. This zooplankton is called a Holoplankton, which means permanent.  Holoplankton organisms remain plankton their entire life.

It  has short hairs to move around quickly.

THIS IS PLANT CELLS!!!

This long strand is a microscopic strand of phytoplankton. Its responsibility is to produce oxygen in to the air and take out the carbon dioxide. This is to small to see without a microscope. It is classified as a nano size.

 

Some of the southern Japanese islands are famous for their beautiful "star sand". These grains are the shells of microscopic, single-celled organisms called foraminiferans or forams (this image is of Baculosypsina sp.). Foraminifera commonly produce a calciferous test (skeleton) that is divided into chambers. Live forams have filopodia (thin cytoplasmic extensions) that are united in a complex fashion to produce reticulopodia. Some of the southern Japanese islands are famous for their beautiful "star sand". These grains are the shells of microscopic, single-celled organisms called foraminiferans or forams (this image is of Baculosypsina sp.). Foraminifera commonly produce a calciferous test (skeleton) that is divided into chambers. Live forams have filopodia (thin cytoplasmic extensions) that are united in a complex fashion to produce reticulopodia.

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