Plankton are a collection of tiny organisms that live at and beneath the surface of lakes, rivers, ponds, and oceans across the planet. They’re named for the Greek word planktos, meaning to ...

Archaea—one of the three primary domains of life alongside bacteria and eukaryotes—are often overlooked and sometimes ...

Plankton is the name given to a collection of tiny sea life that lives in the ocean. These minute organisms may be small, but they have a big role to play in maintaining the health of our oceans ...

Scientists who study a family of green algae that includes unicellular Chlamydomonas and ... such as the ones that gave rise to plants and animals, occurred deep in the past, approaching a billion ...

Unicellular organisms ... our understanding of marine ecosystems and the global biogeochemical cycles. In plankton, algae divide at an enormous rate and contribute to global CO 2 fixation and ...