Diatoms Research Paper

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Diatoms are microscopic and unicellular photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms, was first formally described in scientific literature by Danish biologist Otto Friedrich Müller in 1783. Diatoms can be either planktonic (free-floating) or benthic (attached to a substratum) and are non-motile in nature (Harper and Knoll, 1975). They represent as the major diverse phytoplankton in modern-day aquatic (marine and freshwater) ecosystem and contribute 20-25% of the oxygen production and carbon fixation in the world. Diatoms have been recognized as an important food source for other aquatic life. Diatoms can live in the open ocean, polar waters, tropical waters, all fresh water areas, soil, snow and even in glacial ice. The different species of diatoms
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