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- Cyano = blue
- Bacteria acknowledges that they
are more closely related to prokaryotic
bacteria than eukaryotic algae
Cyanobacteria
Cells small usually < 10m,
lacking nucleus, chloroplasts or other membrane bound
organelles, often with heterocysts or akinete spores.
Blue green in colour due to a water soluble accessory
pigment (phycocyanin)
Growth form as unicells, small clusters, filaments, or large
colonies
photoautotrophs, aerobic
Molecular evidence shows them to be the ancestors of
algal chloroplasts
Prokaryotes Eukaryotes
BOTANY
Cyanobacteria
Microscopic organisms
N N
Cyanobacteria Characteristics
} Filament
Mucilaginous sheath
layer of mucilage outside of the cell wall.
Features
Mucilaginous Sheath
H- heterocyst
Heterocyst
Vegetative cells
Anabaena
Habit success due to ability tolerate a wide
range of conditions
Heterocyst (spatial)
OR
Spirulina
Spirulina
filamentous
common in lakes with high pH
major food for flamingo populations
commercial food source
Anabaena with a heterocyst
- Fragmentation
- Exospore
Asexual Reproduction
Hormogonia short piece of trichome found in
filaments. It detaches from parent filament
and glides away
Hormogonia
Oscillatoria with hormogonia
H A - akinete
Akinete
Asexual Reproduction
Akinete thick walled resting spore