OCB 1000- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 35 pages long!)
13 Oct 2017
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Phytoplankton free-floating organisms of the sea that are capable of photosynthesis. Picoplankton plankton organisms above . 2-20 um in size. Diatoms plankton with an external covering or shell composed of two halves of silicon dioxide. they reproduce both asexually and sexually. Responsible for red tides, and are planktonic. possess two flagellum, and possess bioluminescent speices. A phyla where the greatest # of plantonic organisms are found. Thaliacea and larvacea are filter feeders in this phylum. 3m/sec the wind speed that produces langmuir convection cells. Light an important proximal stimulus that initiates and controls migration of zooplankton. Considered to be the dominant group of zooplankton throughout the world"s ocean. Has six stages of nauplii followed by five stages of copepodids. Pure water absorbs this color of light most rapidly. Rings masses of rotating water that have broken off from a current into a another water mass.
