BIOLUMINESCENCE – lecture
Is there a connection between deep-sea fish, certain bacteria and fungi, and planktonic dinoflagellates? These are truly different groups of organisms, even belonging to different kingdoms of life — one is an animal, one a fungus, one a bacterium, and one a protist.
What if we also add the firefly to the story? Have we just illuminated things for you?
What they all share is BIOLUMINESCENCE — the ability to produce light through chemical reactions.
Hunting, escaping, defence, communication, and reproduction are just some of the activities where light makes a crucial difference, especially if you are active at night or living in the pitch darkness of the deep sea…
Although this fascinating phenomenon has illuminated deep oceans, night landscapes, and invisible microscopic worlds for millions of years, the science behind it is still, in many chapters, very much — in the dark.
So join us (and your kids) for a lecture titled “Bioluminescence – The Light of Nature in the Darkness of Knowledge” on Thursday, 18 June at 18:00.
👉 The lecture will be held in Croatian language.
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Authors
Antonio Svorenji