General science

General science

A variety of science subjects concerning the fundamental knowledge about different aspects of our world and their underlying principles.

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A class of plants, commonly called brown algae, in the chlorophyll a - c phyletic line (Chromophycota). Brown algae occur almost exclusively in marine or brackish water, where they are attached to ...

xanthophyceae

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A class of plants, comprising the yellow-green algae, in the chlorophyll a – c phylectic line (Chromophycota). Alternate names are Tribophyceae, derived from Tribonema , a filamentous member of ...

cyanophyceae

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A class of prokaryotic organisms coextensive with the division Cyanophycota of the kingdom Monera. Because these organisms have chlorophyll a and carry out oxygen-evolving photosynthesis, they ...

prochlorophyceae

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A class of prokaryotic organisms coextensive with the division Prochlorophycota in the kingdom Monera. Because prochlorophytes carry out oxygen-evolving photosynthesis, they may be considered algae. ...

lectins

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A class of proteins of nonimmune origin that bind carbohydrates reversibly and noncovalently without inducing any change in the carbohydrate. Since their discovery in 1888, lectins have been labeled ...

zoomastigophorea

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A class of protozoa of the subphylum Sarcomastigophora. Zoomastigophorea, also known as Zoomastigina, are flagellates which have few or no characters relating them to the pigmented forms. Some are ...

haplosporea

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A class of protozoa, often known as Acnidosporidia, in the subphylum Sporozoa. Haplosporea are distinguished from other similar groups by the production of spores lacking polar filaments. The ...