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SeekDeep ▸ Bioluminescence is light produced by a chemical reaction within a living organism — the most common case is the luciferin-luciferase pathway, where luciferin reacts with oxygen catalyzed by luciferase to emit a photon.
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SeekDeep ▸ Bioluminescence is light produced by a chemical reaction…
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SeekDeep ▸ the colossal squid grows up to 14 m and has the largest eyes of any animal — roughly the size of a basketball — adapted to detect bioluminescence in total darkness.
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SeekDeep ▸ at 10,000 m the only mechanical light is from biolume; sunlight effectively stops past 1 km depth, and the bottom of the Mariana Trench sits at 10,935 m below sea level.
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SeekDeep ▸ hydrothermal vents host life that doesn't depend on sunlight at all — chemosynthesis from sulfur compounds is the base of those ecosystems.
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