Look at these beautiful algae!
The one that looks like a chain of beads is an Anabaena. These are cyanobacteria and they have cell specialization! Two roundish cells in the chain are called the heterocyts and they convert nitrogen gas into ammonia.
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Even though 70-something percent of our atmosphere is nitrogen gas, most plants cannot use the nitrogen gas to create nitrogen requiring compounds. However the plants can use the nitrogen products cyanobacteria manufacture, so it’s extremely important for the environment that cyanobacteria fix nitrogen.
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There are also many cute Mallomonas in the clip, they look like golden seeds with spikes on them. There are some tiny green algae that I don’t even try to identify, they are the smallest ones that buzz around. And some brownish looking Trachelomonas, some green Phacus! It’s just a drop of pond water, and it has so much diversity!
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Thank you so much for reading!
Best,
James Weiss
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