Nadine Belas Bernie Lee Bello Tom Flores FedeliaFlorMero

JanireMirevite YrlaMey Santander IzanelTabat LhumenTejano Experiment 2 PHYTOPLANKTONS

Date Performed: June 27, 2011 Date Submitted: June 30, 2011

I. Introduction Phytoplankton are microscopic organisms that live in watery environments, both salty and fresh. Some phytoplankton are bacteria, some are protists, and most are single-celled plants. Among the common kinds are cyanobacteria, silica-encased diatoms,dinoflagellates,green algae, and chalkcoated coccolithophores. Like land plants, phytoplankton have chlorophyll to capture sunlight, and they use photosynthesis to turn it into chemical energy. They consume carbon dioxide, and release oxygen. All phytoplankton photosynthesize, but some get additional energy by consuming other organisms. II. Procedure Phytoplankton are collected from the beach of the borders of UPV. Since most plankton are barely visible to the unaided eye, a special net is used to gather these small creatures. The plankton net is a funnel-shaped, fine-meshed net that is towed through the water. The net concentrates the plankton from hundreds of gallons of water that pass through it. After the net is pulled through seawater, the particles which do not pass through the net will be concentrated and will be used for viewing the samples. After the collection of the concentrated sample, the plankton net is washed and the sample is placed in a container. Using a dropper, it was placed in a glass slide with grid. Two drops of formalin was added to the sample to immobilize the organisms. The number of phytoplankton were counted on each square. After the data was recorded, the density was computed. III. Results Line 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 Organisms A 18 1 2 1 1 1 B 0 0 0 0 2 1 C 0 14 22 13 10 8 D 0 0 0 0 0 0

Line 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 Line 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 Line 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 Line 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 Line 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total Organism A: 209 Total Organism B: 289

Organisms A 0 2 1 1 0 1 B 0 6 11 21 15 10 Organisms A 0 2 0 6 0 12 B 0 1 5 6 5 0 Organisms A 4 3 20 18 20 4 B 4 5 15 13 4 3 Organisms A 3 23 14 18 11 6 B 0 3 21 35 23 17 Organisms A 0 2 1 4 4 0 B 6 11 8 12 14 2 C 0 0 1 1 0 0 D 0 0 0 0 0 0 C 0 0 3 0 3 4 D 1 4 0 1 2 0 C 1 1 2 3 4 1 D 0 0 1 0 0 0 C 1 0 0 0 0 4 D 0 0 0 0 0 0 C 4 3 7 10 2 0 D 0 0 0 0 0 0

Total Organism C: 122 Total Organism D: 9

Total of Organisms: 629

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Pyrophacushorologium

The type species (holotype) genus Pyrophacus is Pyrophacus horologicum Stein. The genus Pyrophacus Stein is the onlygenus of the family PyrophacaceaeLindemann.
B.

Copepods (meaning "oar feet") are small, shrimp-like crustaceans that swim in seas, lakes, and ponds. Copepods are very important in the food web since many animals eat them. Free-swimming copepods are a component of zooplankton and are eaten by many organisms, including mussels, fish and fish larvae, squid, sea birds, and mammals (like baleen whales and some seals).

C.

Euphausiapacifica

KRILL are shrimp-like in appearance. The abdomen is large, and welldeveloped. Antennules are long, biramous and may be modified in males. The mandibles usually have a palp and the two pairs of maxillae are small and flattened. All the thoracic legs are similar, and carry a gill formed from a typically branched epipodite and natatorysetea. The last one or two pairs of legs however are often reduced. Most krill are herbivorous, but some are omnivorousfeeders.

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Diatoms are one of the strangest and most common forms of life in the ocean. Diatoms are a type of phytoplankton, a group of very small plant-like organisms that live by floating in the ocean. They are plant-like because they photosynthesize sunlight, but unlike terrestrial plants their light absorbing pigments are brown, not green. This means that diatoms are distantly related to giant kelp and other brown algae.

References: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=232598 http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/eco/taxalab/ensy02/marienoellebl.htm http://www.bigelow.org/foodweb/satellite2.html http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Phytoplankton/ http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/invertebrates/crustacean/Copepod.shtml