Add labels to the electron micrograph diagram below. It is recommended that you read the information on the website to accomplish this. Next to each structure you label, try to also include at least one major function.
On this page or your own, develop a list of vocabulary words and their definition based on your reading in the textbook, your reading of the website, and your personal observations in the lab.
Try to construct a preliminary key to the orders of the cyanobacteria. The website may give you some ideas on characters to use. You should refine this key from your personal observations in lab. Perhaps you can add some family-level layers?
Try to construct a preliminary phylogeny to the orders of cyanobacteria. The website may give you some ideas from the character states shown there. You should refine this phylogeny from your personal observations in lab. You may improve further on this with a cladistic analysis.
Try to list characteristics of cyanobacteria in these categories:
| Kingdom | |
| Taxonomic Division | |
| Wall material | |
| DNA Condition | |
| "Nuclear" Condition | |
| Photosynthetic pigments | |
| Photosynthate storage | |
| Other storage materials | |
| Cytokinesis process | |
| Genome division process | |
| Sexual reproduction | |
| Asexual reproduction | |
| Special Biochemistry | |
| Divison of Labor | |
| Specialized Cells |
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