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When are red tides present?

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From August to February but have been documented every month I the year

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What influence the growth if G. Breve?

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Sunlight, temperature, salinity, the amount and types if nutrients available

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How do G. Breve toxins effect fish?

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They effect their respiratory systems

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If humans consume tainted seafoods they can become ailmented with

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Neurotoxic Shellfish Poisoning (NSP)

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What are the early symptoms of NSP?

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Diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain, gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms

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What are the late symtoms of NSP?

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Respiratory asthma like symptoms

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What are the possible outcomes if NSP?

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Paralysis

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The most common red tide in Florida is?

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A dinoflagellate called Gymnodinium Breve

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A single cellars holoplankton with a calcium carbonate shells

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Foraminiferan

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Organisms that spend their entire lives as plankton

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Holoplankton

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Organisms that spend only part of their lives as plankton

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Meroplankton

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Small, usually microscopic plant plankton that floats or drift in the ocean

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Phytoplankton

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A single called holoplankton with a transparent body or shell

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Radiolarian

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Small, usually microscopic animal plankton that floats or drifts in the ocean

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Zooplankton

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Phytoplankton do what

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They are plant plankton, they need light for photosynthesis, live in the photic zone

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Zooplankton do what?

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They are animal plankton, most abundant animals in the ocean, don’t have to live in the photic zone, feed on phytoplankton or other zooplankton

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Phytoplankton are the primary food producer for all marine?

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Food chains

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Phytoplankton produce what precent of oxygen?

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80%

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The most common phytoplankton in cold water are

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Diatoms

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Dinoflagellates are classified as what?

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Between plants and animals

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Dinoflagellates can produce

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Bioluminescence

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The most important members of the holoplankton family are

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Copepoda

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The most common holoplankton are Foraminiferan and Radiolarian

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Foraminiferan and Radiolarian