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Dictionary » C » Cyanobacteria CyanobacteriaDefinition noun, singular: cyanobacterium A group of prokaryotes that are characterized by the following general features:
According to the endosymbiont theory, the chloroplasts inside the cells of photosynthetic eukaryotes had likely evolved from their endosymbiotic relation with cyanobacteria.
Also called: blue-green algae or blue-green bacteria. Related term: ![]()
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Results from our forumArtificial Life... DNA, though I am by no means sure if it can be considered as a pure example of artificial life! Also a friend of mine told me about "cyanobacteria" being created in the nature from the inanimate materials, but I could not find any evidences proofing it at all? By the way we still, ...
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Culturing cyanobacteria - urgent advice please!!Hello, I am currently trying to start a series of trials using Oscillatoria tenuis, Anabaena circinalis and Planktothrix aghardiulture the. I have obtained my cutures from CCAP in Cambridge, and am starting to try to culture them. However, I can find very little information on-line on culture techni...
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Re: Why are leaves green?... to this. Firstly, we have to understand endosymbiotoc theory: the organelles responsible for photosynthesis of plants, chloroplasts are captured cyanobacteria: cyanobacteria/chloroplasts are green. Cyanobateria evolved a long time ago, but they were not the first photosynthetic organisms. Purple ...
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Is Cyanobacteria an algae or a prokaryote (bacteria)??... is evidence supporting multiple endosymbiotic origins of chloroplasts. One of such events led prokariotic photosynthesizers (related to today's cyanobacteria) to become today's chloroplasts of green plants. However it has to be pointed that this evolutionary branch arised whithin green algae ...
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