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Fascinating World of Dinoflagellates: Oxygen Producers and Red Tide Culprits

Dive into the mesmerizing realm of dinoflagellates, the microscopic marine plankton that play a crucial role in oxygen production. Learn about their anatomy, movement, reproduction, and the duality of their impact as both oxygen providers and red tide creators. Explore their significance in the ecosystem and their biological wonders.

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Fascinating World of Dinoflagellates: Oxygen Producers and Red Tide Culprits

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  1. Dinoflagellates By James Banks

  2. Dinoflagellates • Pyrrhophyta is the phylum name of the dinoflagellates.

  3. About Dinoflagellates • 90% of all dinoflagellates are marine plankton.Although many of them are microscopic, the largest, Noctiluca, may be as large as 2 mm in diameter!

  4. The prefix Dino means whirling flagella. The Dinoflagellates are said to of out dated the Dinosaur Not related to Dinosaurs

  5. As you can see in the picture the dinoflagellates are a very ugly animal but without them you and I wouldn’t be able to breathe because they make most of the worlds oxygen What they look like

  6. This is the anatomy of a Dinoflagellate. Anatomy

  7. Dinoflagellates swim by means of two flagella, movable protein strands which propel the cell through the water. So basically they move like sperm. How they get around

  8. The Dinoflagellates are good because they give us oxygen but they also are bad because they produce a Red Tide which destroys fishing based economies. The fish eat the Dinoflagellates that cause the red tide, and die. Good but Bad

  9. The most common form of reproduction is asexual, where daughter cells form by simple mitosis and division of the cell. The daughter cells will be genetically identical to that of the original cell. Reproduction

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