cyanobacteria
Noun
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is a type of: eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria - a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagellasubtypes:
- nostoc - found in moist places as rounded jellylike colonies
- trichodesmium - large colonial bacterium common in tropical open-ocean waters; important in carbon and nitrogen fixation
belongs to: class cyanobacteria, class cyanophyceae, cyanophyceae - photosynthetic bacteria found in fresh and salt water, having chlorophyll a and phycobilins; once thought to be algae: blue-green algaesame as: blue-green algae
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