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The chloroplast with which plants make food for themselves is actually a cyanobacterium living within the plant's cells. Sometime in the late Proterozoic, or in the early Cambrian, cyanobacteria began to take up residence within certain eukaryote cells, making food for the eukaryote host in return for a home.
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Cyanobacteria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic microorganisms that contain chlorophyll. Formerly considered blue-green algae, but actually closely related to bacteria, cyanobacteria are of special importance in Cyanobacteria are found in water and soil and can tolerate great ranges in salinity and temperature. ... ; ORDER INFORMATION...
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A selection of articles related to cyanobacterium ... A Wisdom Archive on cyanobacterium ... ARTICLES RELATED TO cyanobacterium...
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The autotrophic (auto = "self" tropho = "nourishment", Greek) cyanobacteria were once classified as "blue green algae" because of their superficial resemblance to eukaryotic green algae. Although both groups are photosynthetic, they are only distantly related: ... Although they are truly prokaryotic,
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Encyclopedia article about cyanobacterium. Information about cyanobacterium in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. bacteria, cyanobacteria ... About 8% of the lichens involve a cyanobacterium, which can provide both fixed nitrogen and fixed carbon to the fungal partner.
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Blue-green algae make up the division Cyanophyta in the kingdom Monera, which is made up of about 1,500 species of prokaryotic organisms. There is disagreement on whether or not this division should ... Cyanobacteria gets its common name from the blue-green pigment, ... Cyanobacteria are responsible for life as we know it.
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J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature ... Cyanobacterium ; Cyanobium; Cyanodictyon ; Cyanosarcina; Cyanothece; Dactylococcopsis; Geminocystis; Gloeocapsa; Gloeothece; Halothece cluster: Euhalothece, Halothece ; Johannesbaptistia;
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; Hyella stella: a Cyanobacterium that lives in Marine Limestone ... ; Fossil Cyanobacterium ... ; Unknown Cyanobacterium from a warm spring near Mt. Lassen (CA)
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