cyanobacterium
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm
Noun
cyanobacterium (plural cyanobacteria)
- (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 262:
- At some point in the first billion years of life, cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, learned to tap into a freely available resource – the hydrogen that exists in spectacular abundance in water.
- 2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 91:
- Photosynthesis was established some billion years ago by ancient bacterial precursors of modern cyanobacteria.
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prokaryotic microorganism of phylum Cyanobacteria
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