THE COPEPOD
- The copepod is central to the arctic food web
- Ice algae and phytoplankton
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This part is based on pp. 16-21 – there you will find information about the subject.
Read about copepods.
The species of copepod living in the Disko Bay and the Icefjord is called Calanus. There are many other species of this multicellular organism.
Calanus is almost twice the size of other species, which makes it well suited to its role as central to the arctic food web.
What does the concept species mean?
The copepod is a crustacean. What is characteristic for crustaceans?
Is the copepod a prokaryotic or eukaryotic organism – why?
Ice algae have adapted to the cold life under the ice so that they can perform photosynthesis with even very little sunlight.
Ice algae is not the only organism conducting photosynthesis; there is also phytoplankton suspended in the water.
Write the chemical equation for photosynthesis.
Which part in the plant cell performs the photosynthesis?
What does it mean to the arctic ecosystem that ice algae have adapted to their environment?
The species of copepod living in the Disko Bay and the Icefjord is called Calanus. There are many other species of this multicellular organism.
Calanus is almost twice the size of other species, which makes it well suited to its role as central to the arctic food web.
What does the concept species mean?
The copepod is a crustacean. What is characteristic for crustaceans?
Is the copepod a prokaryotic or eukaryotic organism – why?
Ice algae have adapted to the cold life under the ice so that they can perform photosynthesis with even very little sunlight.
Ice algae is not the only organism conducting photosynthesis; there is also phytoplankton suspended in the water.
Write the chemical equation for photosynthesis.
Which part in the plant cell performs the photosynthesis?
What does it mean to the arctic ecosystem that ice algae have adapted to their environment?
