They can fertilize themselves, removing the one thing plants can’t do on their own.
Comment on new organelle!!!!
EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hey can someone summarize this into lame man terms
What I’ve got is New organelle which evolved from a separate organism similar to mitochondria and it allows alge to process nitrogen
Is that right? And what does this mean for the ecosystem
Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
angrystego@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is exactly right. The alga has one more organelle that originated as a bacterial symbiont, just like mitochondria and chloroplasts, which is super cool! The alga, Braarudosphaera bigelowii, is a coccolithophore, which is very cool by itself. They are important part of the carbon cycle. And they loos supercool - they are covered in calcareous scales and are shaped like […wikimedia.org/…/Braarudosphaera_bigelowii.jpg](a dodecahedron!!!)