cryptophyte

Noun

Meaning

common in fresh and salt water appearing along the shore as algal blooms

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Inside cryptophyte chloroplasts is a pyrenoid and thylakoids in stacks of two. Source: Internet

However, the cryptophyte is not an endosymbiont—only the chloroplast seems to have been taken, and the chloroplast has been stripped of its nucleomorph and outermost two membranes, leaving just a two-membraned chloroplast. Source: Internet

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