Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Ancient Microbes

            Many research on microbes have shown that they have been living ever since life existed on earth. Those microbes are found on top of the surface and in the water. Some are even thought of being ancient. Microbes are shown to start new and fascinating things. One of those is drilling deep from land and even in the seas. Dr. David R. Boone is a environmental microbiologist from Oregon and his team of 4 other scientists are going with a program that drills in the earth and helps find microbes that are cut out from life above the surface.

            “Many scientists have theorized about it.” As they kept moving forward with the search and they have found a little over 5,000 kinds of microbes. The problem This article faces right away is the fact that its trying to persuade the reader in one single thought. Thus making the article really bias from the get go. Not looking too deep into the microbes found. Most of them could have already been found, but they have migrated deep down. Knowing that many microbes found to this day for example, the niche is known to live where light is barely visible. Maybe these searches could have a flaw that the article did say. Just to keep the point and making it effective. The searches are really interesting that they catch the readers thought. Don’t get me wrong; it’s a good article. Who knows what type of microbes live under us?


Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/04/science/drillers-find-lost-world-of-ancient-microbes.html?action=click&module=Search&region=searchResults%230&version=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry263%23%2FMicrobes

Picture URL: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/03/28/article-2121683-125FE1BB000005DC-921_233x423.jpg

2 comments:

  1. Hi, I am a PhD student in Dr. Northup's lab. Remember that sometime around 3.5 billion years ago, possibly older, that life arose in the form of single celled organisms. All life on the planet evolved from these early ancestors. Sometimes in science, an article published in the NY Times will give much different information than a scientific peer review journal article. In the journal article the authors would most likely go into detail about what types of microorganisms they found and how these organisms are genetically related to other similar microbes, such as bacteria.

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  2. Jose. I am not sure where the one single idea that may be biased is coming from. Can you explain this a bit more, or go back and clarify? Also...what is the evidence for the claim that the author is making?

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