Missing+All+Single-Celled+Organisms

= Missing: All Single-Celled Organisms =

Introduction
You are a journalist fot the New York Times. You're watching television one evening and an emergency broadcast comes across the screen. //Due to an accident in boiological weapons testing, all single-celled organisms have been wiped off the face of the Earth. No one yet knows the impact on humanity and the environment.// With that the phone rings. It is your editor asking you to write tomorrow's on-line headline story on the impact on humanity and the environment. Your story must include text, hyperlinks to provide greater detail, links to revelant Web-sites, pictures, and diagrams.

The Task
On your wikipage write a newspaper article that explains the impact of the destruction of all single-celled organisms on humanity and the environment. Your story must include text, hyperlinks to provide greater detail, links to revelant Web-sites, pictures, and diagrams.

The Process
You will need to know the answers to the following questions.
 * 1) What is a single-celled organism?
 * 2) What are 4 types of single-celled organisms?
 * 3) What do they look like and what are their major components?
 * 4) What role do they play in nature? ecosystems? food chains?
 * 5) What interactions do they have with humanity?

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The Product
Based on your research compose a newspaper article that explains what a single-celled organism is, it's major components, and what role it plays in the ecosystems and food chains. Describe at least five interactions between single-celled organisms and humans, and how these organisms have previously been threatened. Then form a logical arguement explaining what will happen to life on Earth without single-celled organisms. Your article should have all major vocabulary and scientific terms linked to further explanation, information, or definitions online. You should include diagrams of at least four types of single-celled organisms that are labeled and the labels linked to further information. You also need photographs to go with your article and an embed videoclip on your wiki that adds to the article.