How to Use cyanobacterium in a Sentence
cyanobacterium
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His team used a type of cyanobacterium from the genus Synechococcus.
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Sophie Bushwick,
Scientific American,
2020-01-15
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One day, another organism—a sort of proto-alga—devoured a cyanobacterium.
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Elizabeth Kolbert,
The New Yorker,
2021-12-06
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Polluted Midwest floodwaters have fed an outbreak of cyanobacterium.
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Washington Post,
2019-07-15
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In a fateful encounter, a cyanobacterium was engulfed by a eukaryote, a cell that had evolved the capacity for internal organs, and lived on within its membrane.
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Lucy Jakub,
The New York Review of Books,
2020-12-01
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The cyanobacterium was a new species, which Wilde named Aetokthonos hydrillicola in 2014.
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Erik Stokstad,
Science | AAAS,
2021-03-25
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Lichens are actually two organisms working together: a fungus and either alga or cyanobacterium.
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Corryn Wetzel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2022-02-17
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From experiments with the fern’s genome, Li’s team found that the cyanobacterium’s ability to capture nitrogen from air keeps the fern nourished when other nitrogen sources aren’t available.
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Erika K Carlson,
Discover Magazine,
2018-07-02
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