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What is fossilized algae called?

Cyanobacteria were once called "blue-green algae." What characteristics would lead to the name "blue-green algae"? What caused biologists to reclassify them as cyanobacteria?

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    Cyanobacteria is given its name due to the blue-green(cyan) pigmentation it possesses. The renaming came into play because after research, it was noted that these organisms were a type of bacteria, and since algae and bacteria are different groups of organisms these newly classified organisms could not be algae and bacteria. They resemble algae, but have the characteristics of bacteria.

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Cyanophyta, though identified earlier as an algae, it has been lately discovered to possess certain bacterial characteristics. For eg.- the cell wall composition of Cyanophyta is similar that of gram negative bacteria in the aspect that a mucilaginous sheath (outer membrane) is present outside the cell wall in Cyanophyta. There is also presence of periplasmic space. Membrane bound cell organelles are absent and nucleus is incipient type. Genetic recombination has also been noticed in Anacystis nidulans, a member of Cyanophyta, similar to bacteria.

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