PRE LAB 2: EXAMPLES

Question 1

Produces a blue-green light emission

Answer 1

phytoplankton

Question 2

What causes a deep-sea creature to produce light

Answer 2

symbiotic relationship between bioluminescent bacteria

Question 3

A jellyfish that can emit light

Answer 3

Noctiluca sp.

Question 4

a deep sea-dwelling worm that can emit light

Answer 4

Swima tawitawiensis

Question 5

a deep-sea dwelling worm was
(1) found in
(2) found by
(3) funded by

Answer 5

(1) Tawi tawi Philippines
(2) Larry Madin
(3) Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution

Question 6

Color emission of Swima tawitawiensis

Answer 6

appendage: light blue
body: orange
middle: transparent

Question 7

emit bioluminescence when threaten

Answer 7

Hinea brasiliana

Question 8

describe the outer appearance of hinea brasiliana

Answer 8

size of a finger nail; generate light from a single spot in its shell

Question 9

light pulses of H. brasiliana is ______

Answer 9

variable; some may last for a minute

Question 10

color of light emission of H. brasiliana

Answer 10

blue-green

Question 11

H. brasiliana is also termed as

Answer 11

highly selective frosted light bulb

Question 12

protein that is used in the experiment for fluorescence

Answer 12

GFP : Green fluorescent protein

Question 13

GFP produces green fluorescence when exposed to light in _______ to ______ range

Answer 13

blue to ultraviolet range

Question 14

GFP was first isolated from

Answer 14

Aequorea victoria (avGFP)

Question 15

glow worms are found in

Answer 15

Waitomo, Cave New Zealand

Question 16

A species of squid where the bioluminescene was first discovered

Answer 16

Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes)

Question 17

What causes the bioluminescence of squid?

Answer 17

due to a bacterium symbiont of the bobtail squid