prasinophycean

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noun

Any green alga of the class Prasinophyceae.

Scrabble 26

Meanings

nounprasinophycean (plural prasinophyceans)

plural prasinophyceans

  1. Any green alga of the class Prasinophyceae.

    Like other chlorophyte genomes with a low proportion of non-coding sequences, notably their prasinophycean and pedinophycean homologs [15, 18, 20 ], both chlorodendrophycean cpDNAs are very poor in small repeats (Table 1 ).

    2016 February 6, “Distinctive Architecture of the Chloroplast Genome in the Chlorodendrophycean Green Algae Scherffelia dubia and Tetraselmis sp. CCMP 881”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

    Synonyms: prasinophyte

Synonyms & antonyms

nounAny green alga of the class Prasinophyceae.

Origin

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