OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 48512

cyanobacterium

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cianobacteria
Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria.
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 abun…
Photosynthesis was established some billion years ago by ancient bacterial precursors of modern cyanobacteria.
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