An akinete is a thick-walled dormant cell derived from the enlargement of a vegetative cell.1 It serves as a survival structure. It is a resting cell of cyanobacteria and unicellular and filamentous green algae.2 Under magnification, akinetes appear thick walled with granular-looking cytoplasms...
Stems primarily provide plants structural support. This tutorial includes lectures on the external form of a woody twig ..
Earth was created around 4.5 billion years ago and life began not long after. Primitive life likely possessed the elemen..
Autotrophs flourished, absorbing carbon and light. Soon after, primitive life forms that could assimilate oxygen thrived..
Adaptation, in biology and ecology, refers to the process or trait through which organisms or the populations in a habit..
Physiology is the study of how living organisms function. Thus, human physiology deals specifically with the physiologic..
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