Algae vs Mastigoneme - What's the difference?
algae | mastigoneme |
(alga)
(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.
One of the lateral "hairs" found covering the flagella of heterokont and cryptophyte algae, believed to assist in locomotion.