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.
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Cyanobacterium
Synonyms for "cyanobacterium" (4 found)
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17 translations across 14 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- cianobacteri noun (prokaryotic microorganism of phylum Cyanobacteria)
Czech
1 entries- sinice noun (prokaryotic microorganism of phylum Cyanobacteria)
Finnish
1 entries- syanobakteeri noun (prokaryotic microorganism of phylum Cyanobacteria)
French
1 entries- cyanobactérie noun (prokaryotic microorganism of phylum Cyanobacteria)
Galician
1 entries- cianobacteria noun (prokaryotic microorganism of phylum Cyanobacteria)
German
1 entries- Cyanobacterium noun (prokaryotic microorganism of phylum Cyanobacteria)
Greek
1 entries- κυανοβακτήριο noun (prokaryotic microorganism of phylum Cyanobacteria)
Italian
2 entries- cianobatterio noun (prokaryotic microorganism of phylum Cyanobacteria)
- cianoficea noun (prokaryotic microorganism of phylum Cyanobacteria)
Polish
2 entries- cyjanobakteria noun (prokaryotic microorganism of phylum Cyanobacteria)
- sinica noun (prokaryotic microorganism of phylum Cyanobacteria)
Portuguese
1 entries- cianobactéria noun (prokaryotic microorganism of phylum Cyanobacteria)
Spanish
1 entries- cianobacteria noun (prokaryotic microorganism of phylum Cyanobacteria)
Thai
1 entries- สาหร่ายสีเขียวแกมน้ำเงิน noun (prokaryotic microorganism of phylum Cyanobacteria)
Turkish
2 entries- mavi-yeşil alg noun (prokaryotic microorganism of phylum Cyanobacteria)
- siyanobakteri noun (prokaryotic microorganism of phylum Cyanobacteria)
Vietnamese
1 entries- vi khuẩn lam noun (prokaryotic microorganism of phylum Cyanobacteria)
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Photosynthesis was established some billion years ago by ancient bacterial precursors of modern cyanobacteria.
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