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THE TEMERATURE OF AN ALGEA BLOOM GROWTH
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THE TEMERATURE OF AN ALGEA BLOOM GROWTH Introduction The experiment is to determine the effect of a certain species of algae when they are growing at different temperatures. Cyanobacteria are aquatic and photosynthetic, that is, they live in the water, and can manufacture their own food. Because they are bacteria, they are quite small and usually unicellular, though they often grow in colonies large enough to see. They have the distinction of being the oldest known fossils, Cyanobacteria are still around; they are one of the largest and most important groups of bacteria on earth. They were formerly known as "blue-green algae" - but this is a misleading name! Algae are eukaryotic organisms, not prokaryotes like Cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria are interesting for a number of reasons: They are photoautotroph, able to use CO2 as their sole carbon source and light as their energy source. However, unlike other photosynthetic bacteria, Cyanobacteria use the same photosynthetic...
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