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Journey to the Microcosmos
Season 6 · Episode 44
Lichen: The Mysterious Love Child of Fungi and Algae
0.011mApril 10, 2023
A useful principle in the story of life is that you should never underestimate algae or cyanobacteria. They’ll just always manage to surprise you, and more importantly, to remind you that everything you have comes down, eventually, to them.
Episodes
- Episode 1Giant Microscopic Cannibals
- Episode 2How Many Cells Are in a Microscopic Animal?
- Episode 3The Remarkable Mystery of Land Plants
- Episode 4There's More Than Coral at the Coral Farm
- Episode 5We Finally Found the Elusive Bristle Worm!
- Episode 6Putting Coral Under the Microscope
- Episode 7How Brownian Motion Helped Prove the Existence of Atoms
- Episode 8How to Not Kill an Extremely Rare Microbe
- Episode 9Mouthless Parasites That Make Their Home In Worm Guts
- Episode 10Can This Baby Rotifer Escape Before It’s Eaten Alive?
- Episode 11Bryozoa: Moss Animals That Are Defined by Their Butts
- Episode 12Getting to the Root of Nitrogen Fixation
- Episode 13A Two-Headed Ciliate and Other Adorable, Dead, and Extinct Things
- Episode 14The Aquatic Snails That Leave a Path of Destruction
- Episode 15These Squishy Dots Move So Fast You Might Miss Them
- Episode 16Our Tardigrades Got Stuck in a German Post Office
- Episode 17These Walking Ciliates Are Frustrating
- Episode 18Water Mites: Sticky Dancers with Crystal Poop
- Episode 19We Accidentally Grew Crystals
- Episode 20Ghost Fleas: Tiny See Through Cyclopses
- Episode 21Bacteria That Only Want To Head North
- Episode 22The Shared Doom of Microscopic Hitchhikers
- Episode 23Kentrophoros: The Mouthless Ciliate With a Back Full of Snacks
- Episode 24These Rotifers Glue Themselves Together
- Episode 25Why Are These Single-Celled Organisms So Large?
- Episode 26Sand Is Full of Life and Death
- Episode 27The 18th Century Tardigrade Debate
- Episode 28Is the Mitochondria Always the Powerhouse of the Cell?
- Episode 29This Extremely Rare Ciliate Has Only Been Seen Four Times
- Episode 30How We Got The DNA From This Extremely Rare Ciliate
- Episode 31A Microscopic Tour Through A Norwegian Fjord
- Episode 32The Illuminating Reason Perenema Curl Up Into a Ball
- Episode 33The Collotheca Doesn’t Mind Eating Its Own Babies
- Episode 34The Indecisive Evolution of Gastrotrichs
- Episode 35How Electricity Brings Order To Chaos
- Episode 36The Microcosmos Is Made of Star Stuff
- Episode 37Your Mouth Is A Cave For Microbes
- Episode 38Microscopic Space Travelers
- Episode 39These Microbes Wear Chain Mail Made From DNA
- Episode 40How Does Yeast Make Bread?
- Episode 41How Do Microbes Make Decisions?
- Episode 42How Your Blood Keeps You Alive
- Episode 43Can Bacteria Eat Plastic?
- Episode 44Lichen: The Mysterious Love Child of Fungi and Algae
- Episode 45The Microcosmos Is A Very Stressful Place
- Episode 46These Mites Are Probably On Your Face Right Now
- Episode 47The Incredible World of Bacterial Communities
- Episode 48The Tube-dwelling Architects Of The Microcosmos
- Episode 49How To Kick Off Your Microscopic Journey
- Episode 50Unboxing Our Microcosmos Microscope!
- Episode 51The Complicated Sex Lives of Hydra
- Episode 52When Is A Fungus Not A Fungus?
- Episode 53The Cryptic Origins of Yogurt
- Episode 54Why Beggiatoa Are Stuffed Full Of Sulfur
- Episode 55We Don't Know Why Moth Wings Glow