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Ocean Organisms That Are Used To Make Products

The ocean is a source of mineral deposits including oil and gas. Others live most of their life in the deeper open sea.


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Sessile Marine Organisms as Potential Sources of Natural Products The key limiting resource in marine hard-bottom communities is space.

Ocean organisms that are used to make products. Some ocean animals spend most of their life in the waters near the land. Plenty of beauty-product ingredients including algin are derived from marine organisms as well. For each product that comes from the ocean name the item from the ocean that is used to produce it and describe the ocean zone for which it is found.

Also take into consideration a possible alternative for the product so the organism does not become. Systematic searches for new drugs have shown that marine invertebrates produce more antibiotic anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory substances than any group of terrestrial organisms. And a chemical extract from kelp called algin is used in products as diverse as shampoo and salad dressing.

The antiviral drugs Ara-A and AZT and the anticancer agent Ara-C developed from extracts of sponges found on a Caribbean reef were among the earliest modern medicines obtained from coral reefs. The ocean with its amazing biodiversity offers many more organisms for scientists to discover and develop new medicines. Animals of the Oceans.

Research and identify 10 unique organisms that are used to make products used by humans. Most drugs come from flowers and plants on land but finding new sources is difficult. Oil is used to manufacture plastic.

Even though the open sea is the largest habitat it is estimated that only five percent of the worlds animal species live there. This is especially true for sessile non-mobile permanently attached individuals such as reef-building corals Sponges sea fans bryozoans tunicates and macroalgae. Plants in Clothing Without.

Seaweed is also used for a huge variety of products including skin care ointments gelatin from carragheen used as a gelling agent in a wide variety of items such as ice cream etc iodine. And some bacteria have become resistant to a few of these drugs so much in fact that these drugs dont work any more. Particularly promising invertebrate groups include sponges tunicates ascidians bryozoans octocorals and some molluscs annelids and echinoderms.

The cotton plant produces hard seed cases which burst open and sprout long white cotton fibers much like the milkweed pods we see in fields in the fall. Organisms in Everyday Products Grade 6 Cotton clothing has been around since at least 3000 BC. Dozens of promising products from marine organisms are being advanced including a cancer therapy made from algae and a painkiller taken from the venom in cone snails.

Fish produce- salmon mackerel anchovies clams mussels swordfish mahi-mahi. Your toothpaste likely contains carrageenan an extract made from seaweed thats used in the food industry as a thickening agent.


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