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on the dark night, this eerie but beautiful sight can create quite a light show in the ocean. :) ;)
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An algal bloom of dinoflagellates that causes fish kills is called?
Red tide?
What is unique about dinoflagellates?
A dinoflagellate is a form of single-celled organism, mostly found in water. These protists are interesting in that they exhibit bioluminescence, natural glow-in-the-dark.
What does it mean that dinoflagellates bloom?
They bioluminesce (glow) when disturbed.
What causes friction on a meteroid and makes it glow?
The atmosphere of the earth.
What speical property of Calcite and fluorite that causes them to glow?
Fluorescence
What group of protists can glow in the dark or cause toxic red tides-?
The dinoflagellates are the group of protists that can glow in the dark or cause toxic red tides. The majority of them are marine plankton.
What group of protists can glow in the or cause toxic red tides?
dinoflagellates
Which protist causes red tide?
dinoflagellates tint the sea water to a reddish color.
What group group of protists causes red tides?
Dinoflangellates.
An algal bloom of dinoflagellates that causes fish kills is called?
Red tide?
How can water glow like neon lights?
Some dinoflagellates give off light. A chemical reaction in the cells produces light similar light produced by a firefly. water filled with these dinoflagellates glows like a twinkling neon light.
What causes red tide?
Algal can cause "red tides". Specifically algal blooms.
What is unique about dinoflagellates?
A dinoflagellate is a form of single-celled organism, mostly found in water. These protists are interesting in that they exhibit bioluminescence, natural glow-in-the-dark.
What was glowing on the beach in cape cod?
You may be talking about the bioluminescent organisms that live in the coastal waters. They are most prevelent in the summer time and will glow when the water is disturbed. They are called bioluminescent dinoflagellates.
Do glow worms have a light source of their own?
yes actually glow worms have a chemical reaction in their behind and this causes a glow this glow attracts other insects towards the glow worms so that they can eat them
How do dinoflagellates live?
Dinoflagellates live in the top 200 feet of the ocean.
What color are dinoflagellates?
dinoflagellates give off light which is known as luminscent
