Hydrothermal Vents by Theo Reminder

Hydrothermal Vents by Theo Reminder https://padlet.com/theoreminder/metwlrzjplns Passion Project en-us 2018-12-19 18:11:14 UTC 2026-03-21 02:12:39 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Planets.png Essential Question theoreminder https://padlet.com/theoreminder/metwlrzjplns/wish/315968156 How can Hydrothermal Vents help humanity?]]> 2018-12-19 18:16:11 UTC https://padlet.com/theoreminder/metwlrzjplns/wish/315968156 What are Hydrothermal Vents? theoreminder https://padlet.com/theoreminder/metwlrzjplns/wish/315968872 Hydrothermal Vents are an opening on the ocean floor which mineral-rich superheated water flows from deep inside the earth. Scientists later realized that bacteria were converting the toxic vent minerals into usable forms of energy through a process called chemosynthesis, providing food for other vent organisms. ]]> 2018-12-19 18:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/theoreminder/metwlrzjplns/wish/315968872 Nutrients theoreminder https://padlet.com/theoreminder/metwlrzjplns/wish/324418612 What nutrients help the sea creatures down in the ocean near the vents live?]]> 2019-01-25 17:27:40 UTC https://padlet.com/theoreminder/metwlrzjplns/wish/324418612 Medical (Question) theoreminder https://padlet.com/theoreminder/metwlrzjplns/wish/324419442 Could some of the bacteria that billow from the events help fight or cure diseases in the medical field?]]> 2019-01-25 17:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/theoreminder/metwlrzjplns/wish/324419442 Life on other planets? theoreminder https://padlet.com/theoreminder/metwlrzjplns/wish/324425318 "Can studying thermophiles at deep-sea vents help us in our search for evidence of past and present life on other planets? Scientists think the answer is yes. Clues on Mars’ landscape suggest that water once flowed there. Also, Mars still has an ice cap and there may be liquid water deep in the planet’s interior. There is also geologic evidence that Mars once had volcanoes, much larger and more powerful than the volcanoes we know today on Earth. Astrobiologists think that any evidence of life found on other planets will be bacteria-like, living beneath the planet or moon surface and using chemical energy for their life needs."]]> 2019-01-25 17:41:58 UTC https://padlet.com/theoreminder/metwlrzjplns/wish/324425318 Medical (Answer) theoreminder https://padlet.com/theoreminder/metwlrzjplns/wish/324426672 Genetic research is an area where thermophiles are used. The thermophilic DNA enzyme Taq polymerase, an enzyme that can make many copies of DNA pieces, was first collected from the thermophile Thermus aquaticus from Yellowstone National Park. This thermophile makes the yellow-mustard color found in many hot springs around Yellowstone’s Lower Geyser Basin.

Biotechnology companies have been selling similar enzymes from deep-sea hydrothermal vent thermophiles as well. These enzymes are called Pfu polymerase and have assisted us to uncover genetic diseases, and sequence the entire human genome.

On this expedition, we use enzymes to try and identify the bacteria we obtain from hydrothermal vents. We search for a certain piece of genetic DNA that helps identify our organisms, and then we make copies of the gene. Using this process, we are finding numerous types of bacteria at deep-sea vents that we've never seen before. It’s incredible to imagine what we might learn from them.

]]> 2019-01-25 17:44:50 UTC https://padlet.com/theoreminder/metwlrzjplns/wish/324426672 Webs theoreminder https://padlet.com/theoreminder/metwlrzjplns/wish/324428593 https://divediscover.whoi.edu/hot-topics/bacteria-at-hydrothermal-vents/
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/deep-sea-hydrothermal-vents/
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2. Get supplies and start making the cardboard Hydrothermal Vent
3. Gather more information]]> 2019-02-22 18:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/theoreminder/metwlrzjplns/wish/334266473 What are Thermophiles? theoreminder https://padlet.com/theoreminder/metwlrzjplns/wish/352253898 Perhaps the oddest and toughest bacteria at vents are the heat-loving ‘thermophiles'

]]> 2019-04-17 11:44:26 UTC https://padlet.com/theoreminder/metwlrzjplns/wish/352253898 Assorted Facts theoreminder https://padlet.com/theoreminder/metwlrzjplns/wish/355137365 -Deep ocean technology has discovered organisms in hydrothermal vents that do not rely on sunlight to survive. The organisms use chemosynthesis as their energy source.
-The ocean zone that contains hydrothermal vents is called the Deep Zone (Abyss)
-The hydrothermal vents produce energy through chemical reactions so that species at the bottom of the ocean can get energy to survive.
-Hydrothermal vents contribute most in supporting life on the deep ocean floor.
-The synthesis of organic compounds by certain bacteria, especially in deep-sea hydrothermal vents, using energy obtained from the chemical oxidation of simple inorganic compounds, is called Chemosynthesis.
- Hydrothermal vents are similar to hot springs on the Earth's surface.
-Because chemosynthetic algae can derive sulfide from the fat in whale bones, algae can travel back and forth from hydrothermal vents to cold seeps. Organisms that live off this algae can therefore be found at all three sites.]]> 2019-04-29 17:50:25 UTC https://padlet.com/theoreminder/metwlrzjplns/wish/355137365