Concept information
Preferred term
Cyanobacteria
Type
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Organism
Definition
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A phylum of oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria comprised of unicellular to multicellular bacteria possessing chlorophyll a and carrying out oxygenic photosynthesis. Cyanobacteria are the only known organisms capable of fixing both carbon dioxide (in the presence of light) and nitrogen. Cell morphology can include nitrogen-fixing heterocysts and/or resting cells called akinetes. Formerly called blue-green algae, cyanobacteria were traditionally treated as algae.
Source: Medical Subject Headings
Type: Concept definition
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Synonyms
- blue green algae
- blue-green algae
- blue green bacteria
- blue-green bacteria
- Cyanochloronta
- Cyanophyta
Scope note
- Cyanobacteria is at the level of phylum; do not confuse with the genus Cyanobacterium in the order Chroococcales.
Source
- Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology and Ruggiero, et. al. "A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms".PLoS One, 10 (2015).
Has taxonomic rank
In other languages
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Spanish
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blue green algae
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blue-green algae
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cianobacterias
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Cyanochloronta
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Cyanophyta
URI
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/72
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