Definition & Meaning | English word CRYPTOPHYTE
CRYPTOPHYTE
Definitions of CRYPTOPHYTE
- (biology) Any plant whose buds overwinter either below ground, or under water
- (biology) A cryptomonad
Number of letters
11
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using CRYPTOPHYTE in a Sentence
- cryptomonad, or cryptophyte, a single-celled organism of the phylum Cryptophyta or class Cryptophyceae, most of which are photosynthetic.
- Flimsy hairs attach to the flagella of euglenid flagellates, while stiff hairs occur in stramenopile and cryptophyte protists.
- SecY is also encoded in the chloroplast genome of some algae where it could be involved in a prokaryotic-like protein export system across the two membranes of the chloroplast endoplasmic reticulum (CER) which is present in chromophyte and cryptophyte algae.
- Other characteristic features of cryptophyte mtDNAs include large syntenic clusters resembling α-proteobacterial operons that encode bacteria-like rRNAs, tRNAs, and ribosomal protein genes.
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