I found a tiny protist-like organism. It is made up of four tiny mircoscopic ball-shaped things that form a tiny square. What is it? It was around some scenedesmus. Serious answers only please. If you don't know, don't answer.
2007-11-29 17:09:17 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
It was a bright green color. It was only visible on a microscope on medium power (400x). It didn't move at all. There was two of them that I found, identical to one another, but one was slightly bigger. I tried to look at it on high power, but my mircoscope lense bumped the slide and broke the cover slip. My science teacher couldn't identify it.
2007-11-29 17:13:14 · update #1
See if it looked like any of these:
Desmids: http://www.visualsunlimited.com/images/watermarked/429/429113.jpg
Protococcus viridis: http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/seagrant/GLWL/Algae/Chlorophyta/Images/Protococcus.jpg is Protococcus viridis.
Crucigenia: http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0geu_Ogs09HFVkB9xlXNyoA?ei=UTF-8&p=Crucigenia&fr2=tab-web&fr=yfp-t-501 The best photo (second row down, third picture) isn't on that website anymore so you can't pull it up by itself.
Tetrastrum: http://cyclot.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ryokuso1/tetst2.jpg http://cyclot.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ryokuso1/tetst3.jpg
That's the best I can do with the description.
I can't tell you exactly what you might have been seeing since there are a lot of kinds of algae. What you saw might be a one celled type that was dividing or something that was colonial. Too bad you couldn't have gotten a photo of it.
2007-11-29 18:05:28 · answer #1 · answered by Dean M. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didnot know the correct answer i can only guess by (green bright ball shaped) Its maybe (Ciliated Protozoan) or (Amoeba Engulfing a Paramecium) i also find a website i am sure it will help.uhttp://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/protists/gallery.html
2007-11-29 17:58:14 · answer #2 · answered by lovly Raa 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋