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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

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"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

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