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Spirulina Albida
''Spirulina albida'' is a chlorophyll-free, heterotrophic and saprotrophic freshwater cyanobacterium Cyanobacteria (), also known as Cyanophyta, are a phylum of gram-negative bacteria that obtain energy via photosynthesis. The name ''cyanobacteria'' refers to their color (), which similarly forms the basis of cyanobacteria's common name, blue ... from the genus '' Spirulina''. "Spirulina albida" occur in surface films. References Further reading * * * * * * Spirulinales Bacteria described in 1909 {{Cyanobacteria-stub ...
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Chlorophyll
Chlorophyll (also chlorophyl) is any of several related green pigments found in cyanobacteria and in the chloroplasts of algae and plants. Its name is derived from the Greek words , ("pale green") and , ("leaf"). Chlorophyll allow plants to absorb energy from light. Chlorophylls absorb light most strongly in the blue portion of the electromagnetic spectrum as well as the red portion. Conversely, it is a poor absorber of green and near-green portions of the spectrum. Hence chlorophyll-containing tissues appear green because green light, diffusively reflected by structures like cell walls, is less absorbed. Two types of chlorophyll exist in the photosystems of green plants: chlorophyll ''a'' and ''b''. History Chlorophyll was first isolated and named by Joseph Bienaimé Caventou and Pierre Joseph Pelletier in 1817. The presence of magnesium in chlorophyll was discovered in 1906, and was that element's first detection in living tissue. After initial work done by German chemi ...
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Heterotrophic
A heterotroph (; ) is an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter. In the food chain, heterotrophs are primary, secondary and tertiary consumers, but not producers. Living organisms that are heterotrophic include all animals and fungi, some bacteria and protists, and many parasitic plants. The term heterotroph arose in microbiology in 1946 as part of a classification of microorganisms based on their type of nutrition. The term is now used in many fields, such as ecology in describing the food chain. Heterotrophs may be subdivided according to their energy source. If the heterotroph uses chemical energy, it is a chemoheterotroph (e.g., humans and mushrooms). If it uses light for energy, then it is a photoheterotroph (e.g., green non-sulfur bacteria). Heterotrophs represent one of the two mechanisms of nutrition (trophic levels), the other being autotrophs (''auto'' = self, ''troph'' = n ...
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Saprotrophic
Saprotrophic nutrition or lysotrophic nutrition is a process of chemoheterotrophic extracellular digestion involved in the processing of decayed (dead or waste) organic matter. It occurs in saprotrophs, and is most often associated with fungi (for example ''Mucor'') and soil bacteria. Saprotrophic microscopic fungi are sometimes called saprobes; saprotrophic plants or bacterial flora are called saprophytes ( sapro- 'rotten material' + -phyte 'plant'), although it is now believed that all plants previously thought to be saprotrophic are in fact parasites of microscopic fungi or other plants. The process is most often facilitated through the active transport of such materials through endocytosis within the internal mycelium and its constituent hyphae. states the purpose of saprotrophs and their internal nutrition, as well as the main two types of fungi that are most often referred to, as well as describes, visually, the process of saprotrophic nutrition through a diagram of hyph ...
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Cyanobacterium
Cyanobacteria (), also known as Cyanophyta, are a phylum of gram-negative bacteria that obtain energy via photosynthesis. The name ''cyanobacteria'' refers to their color (), which similarly forms the basis of cyanobacteria's common name, blue-green algae, although they are not usually scientifically classified as algae. They appear to have originated in a freshwater or terrestrial environment. Sericytochromatia, the proposed name of the paraphyletic and most basal group, is the ancestor of both the non-photosynthetic group Melainabacteria and the photosynthetic cyanobacteria, also called Oxyphotobacteria. Cyanobacteria use photosynthetic pigments, such as carotenoids, phycobilins, and various forms of chlorophyll, which absorb energy from light. Unlike heterotrophic prokaryotes, cyanobacteria have internal membranes. These are flattened sacs called thylakoids where photosynthesis is performed. Phototrophic eukaryotes such as green plants perform photosynthesis in plastids t ...
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Spirulina (genus)
''Spirulina'' is a genus of cyanobacteria. Species * '' Spirulina abbreviata'' * '' Spirulina agilis'' * '' Spirulina agilissima'' * '' Spirulina albida'' * '' Spirulina ardissoni'' * '' Spirulina baltica'' * '' Spirulina bayannurensis'' * '' Spirulina breviarticulata'' * '' Spirulina cabrerae'' * '' Spirulina caldaria'' * '' Spirulina cavanillesiana'' * '' Spirulina condensata'' * '' Spirulina corakiana'' * '' Spirulina flavovirens'' * ''Spirulina funiformis'' * '' Spirulina gessneri'' * '' Spirulina gomontiana'' * '' Spirulina gomontii'' * ''Spirulina gordiana'' * ''Spirulina gracilis'' * ''Spirulina innatans'' * ''Spirulina labyrinthiformis'' * ''Spirulina laxa'' * ''Spirulina laxissima'' * ''Spirulina legitima'' * ''Spirulina magnifica'' * ''Spirulina major'' * ''Spirulina margaritae'' * '' Spirulina mariae'' * '' Spirulina massartii'' * '' Spirulina maxima'' * '' Spirulina miniata'' * '' Spirulina minima'' * '' Spirulina mukdensis'' * '' ...
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Spirulinales
The Spirulinaceae is a family of cyanobacteria Cyanobacteria (), also known as Cyanophyta, are a phylum of gram-negative bacteria that obtain energy via photosynthesis. The name ''cyanobacteria'' refers to their color (), which similarly forms the basis of cyanobacteria's common name, blu ..., the only family in the order Spirulinales. Its members are notable for having coiled trichomes. References Cyanobacteria families {{cyanobacteria-stub ...
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