Cyanobacteria

See also: cyanobacteria

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Etymology

cyano- +‎ Bacteria

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Proper noun

Cyanobacteria

  1. The only photosynthetic prokaryotes able to produce oxygen.
    1. A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Bacteria – (formerly within subkingdom Eubacteria) blue-green algae.[1]
    2. A taxonomic class within the phylum Cyanobacteria.

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI