Image of chlorophyll-colored salamander embryos courtesy of Roger Hangarter
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Emilynne☯
said...
Wow! I've heard of symbiosis before, but I never thought that there could be an organism-in-cell relationship.I think it's really cool how this might have given rise to mitochondria and chloroplasts. That's just amazing! The fact that this is the first time it's been found in vertebrates is interesting, but maybe there are more cases. Maybe we have endosymbiosis! I wonder what types of fluorescent light they used, and how did they get the salamander cells? Also, does the algae still help the salamander when it's not an embryo? Overall, this article was very innteresting. While it could haave had a bit more information, I really liked it. I give it a B+.
This was a pretty interesting article. It was pretty interesting to know how they spotted the algae within the cell. It was cool in my opinion that they could see a cell in a cell. My animal kingdom book group is Chordata, which includes amphibians, so this was actually kind of cool to learn a little bit more about Salamanders. It seems like algae plays a role in the life of Salamanders. It isn't all that surprising that algae benefits from the salamander, but is is interesting how the salamander benefits from the algae. Algae actually produces oxygen, which the salamander can take. It is obvious that algae benefit from getting a place to stay, but it was interesting to know that algae get nitrogen from the salamanders. This was a great article, but like Emilynne said, it could have had a little bit more information.
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Wow! I've heard of symbiosis before, but I never thought that there could be an organism-in-cell relationship.I think it's really cool how this might have given rise to mitochondria and chloroplasts. That's just amazing! The fact that this is the first time it's been found in vertebrates is interesting, but maybe there are more cases. Maybe we have endosymbiosis! I wonder what types of fluorescent light they used, and how did they get the salamander cells? Also, does the algae still help the salamander when it's not an embryo? Overall, this article was very innteresting. While it could haave had a bit more information, I really liked it. I give it a B+.
This was a pretty interesting article. It was pretty interesting to know how they spotted the algae within the cell. It was cool in my opinion that they could see a cell in a cell. My animal kingdom book group is Chordata, which includes amphibians, so this was actually kind of cool to learn a little bit more about Salamanders. It seems like algae plays a role in the life of Salamanders. It isn't all that surprising that algae benefits from the salamander, but is is interesting how the salamander benefits from the algae. Algae actually produces oxygen, which the salamander can take. It is obvious that algae benefit from getting a place to stay, but it was interesting to know that algae get nitrogen from the salamanders. This was a great article, but like Emilynne said, it could have had a little bit more information.
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