prochlorococcus in A Sentence

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    That was Prochlorococcus.

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    Their deep blue water is teeming with a hundred million Prochlorococcus cells per liter.

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    So the question is, what is that going to do for my Prochlorococcus?

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    Well, it makes me happy for Prochlorococcus of course--(Laughter) but not for the planet.

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    Ultimately, we knew enough about them to give them the name Prochlorococcus, which means"primitive green berry.

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    So when I daydream about Prochlorococcus, which I probably do more than is healthy--(Laughter) I imagine them floating out there, doing their job, maintaining the planet, feeding the animals.

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    Applause So over the years, we and others, many others, have studied Prochlorococcus across the oceans and found that they're very abundant over wide, wide ranges in the open ocean ecosystem.

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    So--(Laughter)(Applause) So just as your smartphone tells us something about how you live your life, your lifestyle, reading the genome of a Prochlorococcus cell tells us what the pressures are in its environment.

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    As we studied-- I said we have sequenced hundreds of these cells, and we can now project what is the total genetic size-- gene pool-- of the Prochlorococcus federation, as we call it.

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    A marine microbe that has existed for millions of years, Prochlorococcus wasn't discovered until the mid-1980s-- but its ancient genetic code may hold clues to how we can reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.

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    The fossil fuels that are buried that we're burning took millions of years for the earth to bury those, including those ancestors of Prochlorococcus, and we're burning that now in the blink of an eye on geological timescales.

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