Marine Plankton

Friday 2/8

They provide food for other animals.

The majority of our oxygen supply comes from plankton.
They show us where currents are and where healthy ecosystems are.

Dinoflagellates are apart of a group called alveolates. they are most common in marine and freshwater phytoplankton. some are heterotrophic. Diatoms, on the other other hand they are unicellular, photosynthetic algae with cell walls that contain silica.