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At one time cyanobacteria were called blue-green algae and were included with the algae. However, like bacteria and unlike algae, cyanobacteria are prokaryotes, meaning that they do not have a nucleus. For this reason they were removed from the algae (which are eukaryotes) and put into the bacteria, with all the other prokaryotes. See: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/cyanomm.html http://fig.cox.miami.edu/Faculty/Dana/cyano.html

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