Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us Kassinger Ruth
Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us Kassinger Ruth "No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. What they don't know is that without algae, none of us…
Specifikacia Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us Kassinger Ruth
Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us Kassinger Ruth
"No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. What they don't know is that without algae, none of us would exist.There are as many algae on Earth as stars in the universe, and they have been essential to life on our planet for eons. In Slime, Ruth Kassinger gives this underappreciated group its due." -- Elizabeth KolbertSay "algae" and most people think of pond scum.
Crude oil is made of dead algae, and algae are the ancestors of all plants. Algae created the Earth we know today, with its oxygen-rich atmosphere, abundant oceans, and coral reefs. Today, seaweed production is a multibillion-dollar industry, with algae hard at work to make your sushi, chocolate milk, beer, paint, toothpaste, shampoo, and so much more.