if you don't
know some of
the words here
they are.
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Why is photosynthesis so
important to the biosphere? Well
Heliobacteria chlorum will tell you why.
The underappreciated job, photosynthesis,
is to go up to the atmosphere to collect the
inorganic Carbon. Then it is changed into
organic Carbon compounds and then
released into the biosphere for those who
need it. If Heliobacteria chlorum didn’t
change it to organic carbon it would be
useless for the biosphere. Without carbon,
life forms like humans wouldn’t be alive
right now. So, it is extremely important for
the life forms in the biosphere or they
would have nothing to build their bodies.
So that is why Heliobacteria chlorum’s job,
photosynthesis, makes it a superhero!
Organic Comes from life [bio] has
Carbon-Hydrogen (C-H) bond
Inorganic not living, no C-H bonds
Biosphere envelope of air, water and
land in which living things exist
Atmosphere the layer of gases that
surround the planet
Micron one millionth of a meter
Photo of Heliobacteria.12/19/09. http://
genomes.tgen.org/helio.htmll
Some
know
me
as
Heliobacteria Chlorum. Other bacteria
know me as Helio. But you will know
me as the invisible bacteria. My size
makes me invisible because I am a
really small bacteria. My length is 3
microns and my width is .5 microns,
which is not really big so that makes
me a really tiny bacteria that you can’t
see. It takes 9,375,000 of me to fit in a
sugar cube.
Heliobacteria 11/12/09. <http://
www.life.umd.edu/labs/delwiche/PSlife/
lectures/Heliobact.html>.
Kenneth R. Miller. Heliobacterium
chlorum: cell organization and structure.
12/12/09. <http://www.springerlink.com/
content/n61h71587572n88k/>.
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Carlos M.
blogs.portlandschools.org/macler
find out why i
deserve your
respect....
Carbon is very important because it
keeps living organisms alive! The
carbon cycle starts in the atmosphere
where carbon is inorganic carbon
dioxide. Plants, bacteria, and the
sun’s energy change this carbon to
an organic form. This process is
called photosynthesis. Now the
organic carbon is in the biosphere
and it is useful for living organisms.
When a living thing in the biosphere
dies, bacteria break it down and
carbon is released into the
atmosphere again; this also makes
carbon inorganic again. This process
is called respiration or fermentation.
The carbon cycle continues to
change carbon, the building block of
life, so that every living thing has it in
the way they need it.
OH MY
BACTERIA!
good thing he
caught the
murderer.
Hello! I am Heliobacteria chlorum and metabolism is one of the many
methods scientists use to classify bacteria like me. Classifying
organisms is a way to better understand them. Metabolism is about where
organisms get their carbon and energy. Their are two possible places to get your
carbon. You can get your inorganic carbon from the atmosphere and you can get your organic
carbon from the biosphere. Now there are two places you can get your energy, light or chemicals.
Heliobacteria chlorum has a particular metabolism. It gets its energy from light and it gets its
carbon from organic material in the biosphere. All organisms need carbon in one of two forms organic or inorganic. It is very important to have both of them available so that all metabolisms
can function.