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Alga vs Heterokont - What's the difference?

alga | heterokont |

In context|biology|lang=en terms the difference between alga and heterokont

is that alga is (biology) any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose form is very diverse; some are eukaryotic and some prokaryotic; includes the seaweeds while heterokont is (biology) any alga, of the phylum heterokontophyta, having unequal flagella.

As nouns the difference between alga and heterokont

is that alga is (biology) any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose form is very diverse; some are eukaryotic and some prokaryotic; includes the seaweeds while heterokont is (biology) any alga, of the phylum heterokontophyta, having unequal flagella.

alga

English

(wikipedia alga)

Noun

(algae)
  • (biology) Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose form is very diverse; some are eukaryotic and some prokaryotic; includes the seaweeds.

    • Usage notes

    * (term) is a non-standard plural.

    Hyponyms

    * seaweed

    Anagrams

    * * English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    heterokont

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia heterokont) (en noun)
  • (biology) Any alga, of the phylum Heterokontophyta, having unequal flagella

    • Anagrams

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