Oscillatoria is a common genus of Cyanobacteria or blue-green algae. It often occurs in freshwater habitats. Oscillatoria forms a thin, blue-green coating on the surface or edge of flowing water. Salient Features of Oscillatoria The salient features of Oscillatoria are…
Nostoc is the most common genus of Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). It is found in both terrestrial and aquatic habitats. Nostoc is also known as star jelly or spit of the moon due to its colonies, composed of filaments of moniliform cells in…
Cyanobacteria are the most primitive types of organisms (plants) with simple prokaryotic cellular structures. With the help of an electron microscope, Pankratz and Bowen (1963) studied the structure of cyanobacterial cells. The detailed cell structure of cyanobacteria is as follows: Cell…
Bacteria are a type of simple, microscopic, unicellular organism. In 1675, Dutch scientist A. van Leeuwenhoek was first discovered bacteria. He proved the existence of bacteria in his own made microscope and named them animalcules. Later, French scientist Louis Pasteur…
Firstly cyanobacteria are kept in as myxophyceae of class algae (blue-green algae). Later some phycologists kept it into Cyanophyceae, while others kept it into Schizophyceae also. On the basis of the electron microscope and biochemistry Echlin and Moris that cyanobacteria…
Whittaker in 1969, proposed a new five Kingdom arrangement of organisms based on the complexity of cell structure, the complexity of the organism’s body, and the mode of obtaining nutrition. The Five Kingdoms are Monera, Protista, Plantae, Fungi, and Animalia.…