Ants on Guard

https://student.societyforscience.org/article/ants-guard


                      In the Summer in 2001, John Styrsky went into the rainforest and suddenly, He bumped into something which is an acadia tree and felt stinging sensations. he took off his shirt and found 15 ats swarming all around the shirt and kept on biting him repeatedly. the ants did that to protect there home which is the tree. What it turns out is ants live inside trees and they create a symbiosis of them and the plants. The plantsd can help out the ants in a way. Ants cut down plants that harm their home. As I go on, ants can guard the type pf tree called the tangarana. no plants grow near it so the ants have to guard the tree. they cut off the leaves with their mandibles and ate insects and other animals. they also eat the sugars and fats that the plants produce. So, in conclusion, ants do protect plants.





The story happened in the summer in 2001. it didn't have anything to do with past events or anything. This issue just got posted on the website. this event also occured in the Borneo rainforests in Indonesia.

The story can be important because it can show the people that ants can be territorial. It can also show them that ants can help the plants live. I chose the article because it's interesting and can provide more info about ants. Also as the story develops it can probably show how the ants got the instinct to protect the plants.

So, Why do ants protect the plant?

Because they can create a symbiosis with them and they can help the plant live. Also, they can eat the plant's sugar's and fats that the plant produces by photosynthesis.

                       Protists part II: Algae

                          Hey guys and welcome back on the sequal of the microscopic world of algae.:) We are gonna be talking about how and what they are like.

                       
http://botany.si.edu/references/dinoflag/

                 How plant like protists have the same aspects as plants are, they have chlorophyll as mentioned in the previous blog posts. They rely on photosynthesis which is the conversion of light into their own food called glucose, and they make up some multi celled organisms like kelp. How they are different is that they don't have stems, they don't have roots, and they don't have leaves.

                         





                  Y'all might be wondering about what groups of algae are fit into that group. There are six groups of algae. The most common one is green algae which can rely on photosynthesis. The can also give out half of the world's oxygen. red algae can get some of the sunlight and live deep under water. brown algae can be used as ingredients for chocolate pudding and toothpastes. they can also be depicted as seaweed and kelp. diatoms contain a substance for gold called silica. Euglenoids have a salt water food chain. Finally, dinoflagellates cause the red tide and is the most dangerous type of algae.

Well, some of the important uses algae can do for the environment is green algae can give out half of the world's oxygen as mentioned in the paragraph above.XD. Brown algae can help out the environment too by providing ingredients for pudding and toothpaste.

 

 

well, see ya guys later

                                Protozoa

                   Hey guys and welcome back to my geniune blog on one of the fascinating things in the microscopic world




                   The characteristics that the protists share are that they are mostly animal like organism because of how they move and they eat other organisms too. The animal like protists can't make their own food.  Some of them can be fungus like and can suck the nutrients from other organisms. Finally, the plant like protists like kelp and plankton can reproduce by using the process called photosynthesis

Scientists do classify the protozoa by the movement of the protists. There are four types of protists based on how they move. One is the amoeboid, which moves by changing shape. Second is the ciliate, which moves by their cilia (which are tiny hairs on the sides). Third is the sporozoa, which are parasitic and don't move for most of their lives. Finally, the flagellum, which moves by the flagella(whip that works like the propeller).

Amoeboids use pseudopods to eat. flagellates use their flagella to digest their food. The cilia is the only group of protozoa that have the micronuclei and the macronuclei. Sporozoa are parasitic and they cause harm to the host. they are all parasitic and symbiotes.


The importance of some protozoans are that they can be helpful to humans and other living things. How they can help other organisms is by helping the host digest its food. Others can harm the host by spreading through contact of other organisms like malaria, a disease that can cause death and can be spread by mosquitoes.

Well, some protozoans cause diseases.  Malaria is the most well known one they can cause as I explained above. The symptoms are fever, headache, and vomiting but the symptoms don't start until 4 weeks. More symptoms are coma life long learning disabilities and death.


See ya guys later.



http://www.atlanticpestsolutions.net/mosquitos-ticks/


http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/sciences/botanicalsciences/majordivisions
/kingdomprotista/Protists/protists.htm

http://www2.estrellamountain.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/biobookdiversity_3.html

http://www.malarianomore.org/pages/what-is-malaria?gclid=COnNzp_22roCFUPl7Aod0GIA9Q