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Not Pac-Man, It's Algae Being Born

A Game of a Living, Breathing Earth


Subject Matter:

Living Volvox algae releasing its daughter colonies

Magnification

100x

Technique:

Differential Interference Contrast


http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/subjects/image/algae/4

http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/subjects/main/algae



"A single kind of blue-green algae in the ocean ('Prochlorococcus') produces the oxygen in one of every five breaths we take"

~ The Fate of Small Species and the Oceans -- Sylvia Earle


"Sea Drifters": The Foundation of the Oceanic Food Chain


http://www.tinybluegreen.com


Close up images of tiny life forms that hold the key to survival in the world's oceans


https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Phytoplankton_-_the_foundation_of_the_oceanic_food_chain_m.jpg


Phytoplankton - the foundation of the oceanic food chain m.jpg


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