NOUN
- type genus of the Chlamydomonadaceae; solitary doubly-flagellated plant-like algae common in fresh water and damp soil; multiply freely; often a pest around filtration plants
How To Use Chlamydomonas In A Sentence
- Many species of Chlamydomonas are facultative auxotrophs, capable of utilizing acetate as their sole carbon and energy source.
- Flagellar length in the unicellular, biflagellate, green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is tightly regulated.
- Chlamydomonas has nothing to do with Chlamydia, by the way.
- The PKA protein in Chlamydomonas flagella has not been purified.
- However, the potential of the unicellular green alga chlamydomonas in selection systems has been studied most.
- The Chlamydomonas gene works on the "ON" cells only but it is thought that a protein from a separate microorganism might eventually restore "OFF" cells.
- Many features of chlamydomonas sex are believed to have evolved early in the chlorophyte lineage. Mutation, selection and complexity - The Panda's Thumb
- The unicellular biflagellate green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii can perceive light and respond by altering its swimming behavior.
- Chlamydomonas strains were transformed according to the silicon carbide whisker method of DUNAHAY 1993, with the following modifications.
- Because Chlamydomonas is a multiple-fission alga, a cell that is growing vegetatively may yield daily two or more daughter cells, all of which need to be incapacitated by UV treatment to prevent colony formation.
