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What Is Hormogonia?


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Hormogonia:

  1. Hormogonia is a fraction of a filament in algae that detaches from the organism and reproduces by cell division.
  2. Hormogonia are found in cyanobacteria such as Nostoc.
  3. They are produced during vegetative reproduction in unicellular and filamentous cyanobacteria.
  4. The hormogonia might contain akinetes and heterocyst.
  5. Hormogonia is plural for hormogonium.

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