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"Watch the flagella, will you? You almost poked my eye out!"
"I am a Chlamydomonas, thank you very much," the creature replied, spinning in a circle. "And your drawing is terrible. I look like a lopsided potato. If you want to pass Pasechnik’s lesson, you need to understand that I’m not just a green blob. I’m a sun-eating machine!" rabochaia tetrad po biologii 6 klass pasechnik vodorosli
Artyom sighed. Outside his window, the spring sun was melting the last of the snow, turning the garden into a muddy playground. Inside, he was stuck trying to sketch the structure of a Chlamydomonas. He dipped his pencil into his sharpener, but as he touched the lead to the paper, the green circle he had drawn began to vibrate. "Watch the flagella, will you
"We are the lungs of the planet," the Chlamydomonas said, its red light-sensitive eye-spot glowing. "While you humans are busy walking around, we are here absorbing the sun and giving you the oxygen you breathe. Look at my chromatophore!" I look like a lopsided potato
He looked down at his Pasechnik workbook. The drawing of the Chlamydomonas was still there, but it didn't look like a lopsided potato anymore. He picked up his green colored pencil and carefully shaded the chromatophore, adding the two tiny flagella with a steady hand. Underneath, in his best handwriting, he wrote: Algae: The invisible foundation of life.
The next day in biology class, when the teacher asked why algae were important, Artyom didn't even have to look at his notes. He just smiled, thinking of the tiny, glowing passenger who had shown him the world in a drop of water.
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