Jellyfish presentation for art/bio class.

1. Jellyfishes
Mary Lopez

2. Who we are
North Brooklyn Community
Boathouse
● Canoe and Kayak trips
● Public Paddles
● Art/Bio classes
● Monica and Mary

3. Jellyfish Facts
● Phylum cnidarians which include
coral, jellyfish, anemones
● >10, 000 species
● No bones, blood, brains, gills or
heart
● Not a fish- Sea Jellies
● Been around for 500 million years
● 95% water but gel like bell called
Mesoglea which can pulsate

4. Jellyfish Facts continue
● Live up to 1-3 years
● Sexual or Asexual reproduction
● Eat: other plankton, crustaceans,
small fish
● Prey to leatherback turtles, sunfish,
tunas, swordfish, sharks
● Found all over the world, shapes,
sizes
● Life cycle from egg to Medusa

5. Immortal Jellyfish
● Turritopsis Dohrnii
● Tiny
● Cellular
Transdifferentiation
● Genome has been mapped
● Research on human aging
and health conditions

6. Box Jellies
● Most venomous in the world
● Nematocyst (poisonous
harpoons)
● One millionth of a second

7. Jellyfish of NY Harbor
● Comb Jelly-rows of
plates made of cilia that
move through the water,
some are
bioluminescent
● Moon Jelly-translucent,
been to space, gonads in
their bell

8. GFP (Green Fluorescent Protein)

9. GFP Art/Art in the Brain

10. GFP in biomedical research
● Scientists cloned gene responsible for
fluorescence in the Aequorea Victoria jellyfish
called Green Fluorescence Protein
● Label proteins with fluorescence tag
● Visual tool to track cancer/Alzheimer cells
● Tagged to drugs

11. Art time with Monica!
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