Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Significance
This project is significant because the salinity in which the bioluminescent bacteria fluoreses the most indicates that that salinity is ideal for the bacteria. This is relivent because the bacteria correlates with other marine life. So if a local fisherman is aware of the local salinities, then his best bet for finding the largest population of fish is the area of salinity equal to the results of this experiment. With the higher population, the fisherman would be more likely to catch more fish.
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what marine life do the bacteria help with?
ReplyDeleteso you're proposing to use this bioluminescent bacteria to be used as a salinity indicator?
ReplyDeleteas an answer to Ben's question, the marine life help mostly with squid, but also can live whithin other organisms like fish. As to Peeraya's question, not exactly, more so fish life would be highest in areas with corresponding salinities, a fisherman would already have to know the local salinities to benefit from this experiment. And based on the results the ideal place to fish would be at about 3% salinity
ReplyDeletewould your project help anyone else besides fisherman?
ReplyDeleteWell not particularly, the project would mostly only benefit fisherman at this point.
ReplyDeleteI love the project and your page is really awsome!
ReplyDelete-Keanna