Its only byproduct is water." Technically, algae mostly belong to a group of organisms called protists that aren't actually ...

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Carly Allen-Fletcher has drawn a picture of the Big Picture, turning her imagination to the six classifications of life forms ...

Discover how plankton, the ocean's microscopic marvels, play a vital role in oxygen production and carbon sequestration.

Further, the project focused on kleptoplasty, a phenomenon in which a protist steals chloroplasts form algae and use them for photosynthesis. The research was done at the University of Helsinki and at ...