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Cyanobacterium vs Picocyanobacterium - What's the difference?

cyanobacterium | picocyanobacterium |

In biology|lang=en terms the difference between cyanobacterium and picocyanobacterium

is that cyanobacterium is (biology) any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum cyanobacteria , once known as blue-green algae while picocyanobacterium is (biology) any cyanobacterium having dimensions less than about 2 micrometres.

As nouns the difference between cyanobacterium and picocyanobacterium

is that cyanobacterium is (biology) any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum cyanobacteria , once known as blue-green algae while picocyanobacterium is (biology) any cyanobacterium having dimensions less than about 2 micrometres.

cyanobacterium

English

Noun

(cyanobacteria)
  • (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria , once known as blue-green algae.
  • *2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA 2003, p. 262:
  • *:At some point in the first billion years of life, cyanobacteria , or blue-green algae, learned to tap into a freely available resource – the hydrogen that exists in spectacular abundance in water.
  • *2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 91:
  • *:Photosynthesis was established some billion years ago by ancient bacterial precursors of modern cyanobacteria .

    • Synonyms

    * blue-green alga

    Hypernyms

    * bacterium

    picocyanobacterium

    English

    Noun

    (picocyanobacteria)
  • (biology) Any cyanobacterium having dimensions less than about 2 micrometres

    • See also

    *picoplankton