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Acetabularia

Acetabularia

Photo by Sacatungka
Published on Project Noah
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43.1243, 16.7027

Field Notes

Habitat:

Sea bed in a shallow water

Notes:

Depth ca 2m

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Acetabularia

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Sacatungka
Single-cell green alga, ca 2 cm. A single nucleus located in the root-like base of the alga. Genus common in subtropical waters. Acetabularia is famous from the experiments, which demonstrated that its genetic information is contained in the nucleus and that genes are encoded by DNA in eukaryotes.

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PublishedAugust 19, 2010

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