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Euglenophyta
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paramylum A starch-like polysaccharide found as a storage product in
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Euglenophyta
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Euglenophyta , small phylum (division) of the kingdom Protista , consisting of mostly unicellular aquatic algae . Most live in freshwater...
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Algae
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...that serve particular functions. The algal divisions are Euglenophyta, Chrysophyta, Pyrrophyta, Chlorophyta, Rhodophyta, Paeophyta...green of the primary chlorophylls in various ways). The Euglenophyta or euglenoids comprise approximately 800 species of unicellular...
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Phytomastigophora
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
...microscopic organisms which typically possess chloroplasts and are photosynthetic. These organisms are often regarded as algae (e.g. Chlamydomonas , Chrysophyta , cryptophytes , Dinophyta , Euglenophyta , Prymnesiophyceae , and Volvox ).
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Euglenida
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology
...are colourless and thus ingest food, since they cannot photosynthesize. Euglenids are sometimes classified as a phylum, Euglenophyta, but they are now more usually included in a larger phylum, Discomitochondria , together with three other groups of organisms...
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Photosynthesis
Book article from: World of Microbiology and Immunology
...photosynthesis. Algae differ from higher plants in having different complements of additional chlorophylls. Chlorophyta and Euglenophyta have chlorophyll-a and chlorophyll-b. Chrysophyta , Pyrrophyta , and Phaeophyta have chlorophyll-a and chlorophyll...
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