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Axodine

The axodines are a group of unicellular stramenopiles that includes silicoflagellate and rhizochromulinid algae, actinomonad heterotrophic flagellates and actinophryid heliozoa.

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Bolidophyceae

Bolidophyceae is a class of photosynthetic heterokont picophytoplankton, and consist of less than 20 known species.

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Brown algae

Brown algae (alga) are a large group of multicellular algae comprising the class Phaeophyceae.

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Clade

In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.

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Diatom

A diatom (Neo-Latin diatoma) is any member of a large group comprising several genera of algae, specifically microalgae, found in the oceans, waterways and soils of the world.

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Embryophyte

The embryophytes are a clade of plants, also known as Embryophyta or land plants.

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Endosymbiont

An endosymbiont or endobiont is an organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.

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Euglenid

Euglenids or euglenoids are one of the best-known groups of flagellates.

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Eukaryote

The eukaryotes constitute the domain of Eukarya or Eukaryota, organisms whose cells have a membrane-bound nucleus.

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Eustigmatophyte

Eustigmatophytes are a small group (17 genera; ~107 species) of eukaryotic forms of algae that includes marine, freshwater and soil-living species.

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Flagellate

A flagellate is a cell or organism with one or more whip-like appendages called flagella.

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Gamete

A gamete (ultimately) is a haploid cell that fuses with another haploid cell during fertilization in organisms that reproduce sexually.

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Golden algae

The Chrysophyceae, usually called chrysophytes, chrysomonads, golden-brown algae or golden algae, are a large group of algae, found mostly in freshwater.

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Green algae

The green algae (green alga) are a group of chlorophyll-containing autotrophic eukaryotes consisting of the phylum Prasinodermophyta and its unnamed sister group that contains the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/Streptophyta.

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Halvaria

Halvaria is a taxonomic grouping of protists that includes Alveolata and Stramenopiles (Heterokonta).

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Haptophyte

The haptophytes, classified either as the Haptophyta, Haptophytina or Prymnesiophyta (named for Prymnesium), are a clade of algae.

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Heterotroph

A heterotroph is an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter.

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Kelp

Kelps are large brown algae or seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales.

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Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their metabolism.

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Plastid

A plastid is a membrane-bound organelle found in the cells of plants, algae, and some other eukaryotic organisms.

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Protist

A protist or protoctist is any eukaryotic organism that is not an animal, land plant, or fungus.

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Raphidophyte

The raphidophytes, formally known as Raphidophycidae or Raphidophyceae (formerly referred to as Chloromonadophyceae and Chloromonadineae), are a small group of eukaryotic algae that includes both marine and freshwater species.

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Red algae

Red algae, or Rhodophyta, make up one of the oldest groups of eukaryotic algae.

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Rhizaria

The Rhizaria are a diverse and species-rich supergroup of mostly unicellular eukaryotes.

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Seaweed

Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae.

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Stramenopile

The Stramenopiles, also called Heterokonts, are a clade of organisms distinguished by the presence of stiff tripartite external hairs.

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Yellow-green algae

Yellow-green algae or the Xanthophyceae (xanthophytes) are an important group of heterokont algae.

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