{"id":14548,"date":"2016-02-28T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=14548"},"modified":"2016-02-28T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T20:17:00","slug":"biology-protists-diatoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-protists-diatoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology:  protists:  diatoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor mentions a few points about diatoms.<\/h1>\n<p>In my <a href=\"?p=14211\">Feb 4 post<\/a> I introduced protists, which constitute a kingdom of eukaryotic, mainly single-celled organisms.  Protists are divided into plantlike and animal-like ones.<\/p>\n<p>Diatoms, from phylum Chrysophyta, are among the golden brown algae.  They are plantlike protists, perhaps the most numerous of them.  In the oceans, their abundance makes them a major food source at the base of the ecosystem.  Furthermore, they are prominent producers of oxygen on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Diatoms have a two-valve structure, rather like the base and lid of a box.  They are well known for having glass (silica) in their cell walls, which show striking patterns under a microscope.<\/p>\n<p>Diatoms have been even more abundant in the past; today, those fossils constitute diatomaceous earth, which is mined for applications such as soundproofing, filtration, and scouring powders.<\/p>\n<p>HTH:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mader, Sylvia S.  <u>Inquiry into Life<\/u>, 9th ed.  Toronto:  McGraw-Hill, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Ritter, Bob et al.  <u>Biology<\/u>.  Scarborough:  Nelson Canada, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor mentions a few points about diatoms. In my Feb 4 post I introduced protists, which constitute a kingdom of eukaryotic, mainly single-celled organisms. Protists are divided into plantlike and animal-like ones. Diatoms, from phylum Chrysophyta, are among the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-protists-diatoms\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biology:  protists:  diatoms<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,17,10],"tags":[1461,1460,1463,1464,1462,1401],"class_list":["post-14548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-biology_11","category-sciences","tag-diatomaceous-earth","tag-diatoms","tag-golden-brown-algae","tag-phylum-chrysophyta","tag-plant-like-protists","tag-protists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14548"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14564,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14548\/revisions\/14564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}