Pleurotaenium
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In taxonomy, Pleurotaenium is a genus of algae, specifically of the Placoderm desmids (Desmidiaceae).[1]
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[edit] Morphology
Long, cylindrical, bilaterally symmetrical unicells with blunt ends. Ring-like thickening in the central area where the two semicells join. In a good specimen, very delightfull to look at due to obvious intracellular activity, especially at the ends.
[edit] Reproduction
Asexual: cells arise from the partitioned parent cell
Sexual: Conjugation (transmission of DNA through nucleus fusion to form a hypnozygote, which is just a term for a zygote that lays dormant until optimal conditions arise)
[edit] References
- ^ See the NCBI webpage on Pleurotaenium. Data extracted from the NCBI taxonomy resources. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.
