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Q: What is the gel-like substance covering some cyanobacteria?
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The gel-like substance covering some cyanobacteria enables them to?

adhere to surfaces and form colonies. It also protects them from harmful environmental conditions and helps them to access nutrients. The gel-like substance is often referred to as a biofilm or extracellular matrix.


What is Semisolid media?

Something that is solid but not completely solid, like Jello. A semi-solid can be a cream, an ointment, a gel or a lotion. Semisolids have some properties of solids, and some properties of liquids.


Is the cyanobacteria mul ticellular or unicellular?

both! some species are unicellular some are multicellular


What two effects of pigments found in cyanobacteria?

Some have a blue pigment that helps in photosynthesis. This pigment gives those cyanobacteria a blue tint. Other cyanobacteria have red pigment. Flamingos get their pink color by eating red cyanobacteria. or Cyanobacteria lives in water and these bacteria contain the green pigment chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is important to photosynthesis.


Is Cyanobacteria good or bad if good or bad what does it do that is good or bad?

Answer 1yes because it could cause a very bad disease.Answer 2There are thousands if not millions of varieties of cyanobacteria. Most are entirely neutral to humans. There a positive benefits that accrue from some species of cyanobacteria such as nitrogen-fixing in the soil and certain medicines that are derived from cyanobacteria. Some Cyanobacteria also have negative impacts, such as releasing poisonous toxins and causing red tide in saltwater bodies.


How do colonies of cyanobacteria harm aquatic organisma?

Some cyanobacteria fix nitrogen from atmosphere.


What are two effects of pigments found in cyanobacteria?

Some have a blue pigment that helps in photosynthesis. This pigment gives those cyanobacteria a blue tint. Other cyanobacteria have red pigment. Flamingos get their pink color by eating red cyanobacteria. or Cyanobacteria lives in water and these bacteria contain the green pigment chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is important to photosynthesis.


Do monerans contain chlorophyll?

Most monerans such as cyanobacteria use the photosynthetic pigments phycobiliproteins and bacteriochlorophyll whilearchaeal monerans use bacteriorhodopsin. However, some cyanobacteria known as prochlorophytes use chlorophyll B.


What are the characteristics about cyanobacteria?

Cyanobacteria have features that are common to both bacteria and plants. Cyanobacteria are highly flexible in their metabolism. Some cyanobacteria can also use sulphide and live under anaerobic conditions.


Can only plants carry out photosynthesis?

No, there are some organisms that also do photosynthesis. Algea, some protists, and cyanobacteria also carry out photosynthesis.


Is bacteria an auto troph?

Some are autothroph (purple sulfur bacteria, cyanobacteria), but many aren`t.


If solubility is a propety of a substance explain why some substance will dissolve in some substasnce but no others?

because the solubility is a propety of a substance and some substance will dissolve in some substasnce but no others