Plankton – Millions of it in a Teaspoon of Sea Water
May 30, 2012
What is Plankton? Let’s try to keep it simple.
Its ….
- … an animal, plant or a bacteria
- … breakfast, lunch and dinner for fishes and whales
- ….a drifting organism that inhabits the ocean, sea or bodies of fresh water
- ….its mostly flows passively with (!) the ocean current
- … amazingly small: bacterias of up to 2 million in a teaspoon
- … quite big: some jellyfishes
- … the counterpart of nekton, which can swim against ambient flow and control their position (e.g. squid and fish)
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