blue-green algae Prokaryote organisms with photosynthetic phycobilin pigments.
bluetongue Virus disease of ruminants transmitted by biting midges (Ceratopogonidae).
Nostoc
a blue-green algae.
nostril
(nares) An external opening of the nose leading into the nasal cavity.
Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
Unlike other photosynthetic bacteria, cyanobacteria ...
An organism whose cells possess a nucleus and other membrane-bound vesicles, including all members of the protist, fungi, plant and animal kingdoms; and excluding viruses, bacteria, and blue-green algae. See Prokaryote. Evolution.
Specifically, the mitochondria found in all eukaryotic cells and the chloroplasts found in photosynthetic eukaryotic cells are very similar to aerobic bacteria and blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) respectively.
While Cyanobacteria have been traditionally included among the algae, referred to as the Cyanophytes or blue-green algae, recent works on algae usually exclude them due to large differences such as the lack of membrane-bound organelles, ...
Traditionally the cyanobacteria have been included among the algae, referred to as the cyanophytes or Blue-green Algae, though some recent treatises on algae specifically exclude them.
Prokaryote: Organisms, namely bacteria and cyanobacteria (formerly known as blue-green algae), characterized by the possession of a simple naked DNA chromosome, occasionally two such chromosomes, usually of circular structure, ...
Eukaryotes include all organisms except viruses, bacteria, and blue-green algae. Compare prokaryote. See chromosomes.
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Nucleus ...
Word origin: Latin alga, meaning seaweed.
Related forms: algal (adjective)
Synonym: seaweed
Compare: blue-green algae.
See also: phycology, algaculture, diatom, kelp, laminaria, nori.
These ribosomes notably differ in size and makeup than other ribosomes found in eukaryotic cells, and are more akin to those present in bacteria and blue-green algae cells.
Bacteria (technically the Eubacteria) and blue-green bacteria (the blue-green algae when I was a student back in the 1970s), or cyanobacteria are the major forms of life in this domain, examples of which are shown in Figure 2.
Kingdom Monera the Kindgom to which prokaryotes such as bacteria and blue-green algae belong
(moner‚ mono = one‚ single) ...
Eukaryote
Cell or organism with membrane-bound, structurally discrete nucleus and other well-developed subcellular compartments. Eukaryotes include all organisms except viruses, bacteria, and blue-green algae. Compare prokaryote. See chromosomes.
Castenholz, R. W. 1992. Species usage, concept, and evolution in the cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). Journal of Phycology 28:737-745.
Nitrogenase complex An enzyme complex that catalyzes the reduction of diatomic nitrogen to ammonia; found in bacteria and the blue-green algae.
 See also: Algae, Bacteria, Organ, Membrane, Cells
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