Diatom vs Auxospore - What's the difference?
diatom | auxospore |
A group of minute unicellular algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, now categorized as class , now obsolete.
(biology) A reproductive spore in diatoms that is formed by the union of two cells
* 2001 , Eugene Stoermer & John Smol, The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences ,
As nouns the difference between diatom and auxospore
is that diatom is a group of minute unicellular algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, now categorized as class class: Diatomophyceae or division Bacillariophyta, formerly all included in the order order: Diatomaceae, now obsolete while auxospore is a reproductive spore in diatoms that is formed by the union of two cells.diatom
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(wikipedia diatom)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* diatomaceous * diatomiteauxospore
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(wikipedia auxospore)Noun
(en noun)- Auxosporulation [is] the formation of an auxospore ...usually a zygote, produced by diatoms, which expands to near the maximum size of a given species.