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MICROBES!!!!

MICROBES!!!!. Alcanivorax Borkumensis. Stars. Microbes. Jim Foley. What are microbes?. Single-celled organisms. They make up a majority of the life on Earth in terms of mass. They are the first living organisms to develop. Role in Ecology.

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MICROBES!!!!

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  1. MICROBES!!!! Alcanivorax Borkumensis

  2. Stars Microbes Jim Foley

  3. What are microbes? • Single-celled organisms. • They make up a majority of the life on Earth in terms of mass. • They are the first living organisms to develop.

  4. Role in Ecology • Nearly all microbes are either decomposers or producers. • They play major roles in maintaining the nitrogen and carbon cycles and decomposing organisms.

  5. tiny Evolution • Microbes are the oldest organism on earth specifically 3.3 billion years. • Without them evolution would never have taken place. • The first micro-organisms were photosynthetic Cyano-bacteria.

  6. Deep Sea • Life for microbes in the deep ocean is intense. • Several factors in their environment are: immense pressure, complete darkness, and restricted by lack of chemicals and nutrients. They are often called “extremophiles.” (living in extreme environments (salinity, temperature, pH, pressure))

  7. The ocean is separated into multiple biospheres or layers. • Each of these have their own unique characteristics. • Only areas that receive significant light (photic zone) have primarily been observed.

  8. Microbes beneath the sea floor are a new area of research by C-DEBI (Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations) http://www.darkenergybiosphere.org/resources/toolbox.html How do scientists search for and collect microbes beneath the sea floor? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOgZy9TfSFo&feature=youtu.be

  9. What We Learn from Ocean Drilling Oceandrilling has: • Confirmedthetheories of platetectonics and continental drift. • Alteredourthinkingabouttheformation of geologichazardslikeearthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis. • Discovered a vast and active biosphere of microbes living deepbelowtheseafloor, fardeeperthanscientistseverpredictedlifecouldexist. These are unknownmicrobeswithanestimatedbiomassgreaterthanallterrestriallife. • Providedmajorinsightsintothepaleoclimate record—thechanges to our global climatethathaveoccurredoverthepast 100 millionyears and more.

  10. 12 billion light year corridor of space 12 billion microbes per liter Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view? Victor Hugo Les Miserables (1862)

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