Question

What are akinetes?

Answer 1

Akinetes:

1. The vegetative cell of some cyanobacteria forms yellow-brown cells after storage of food materials called as akinetes.
2. It is covered with a thick wall and under favorable conditions, it germinates to form a new thallus.
3. They are resting cells.
4. It is one of the methods through which vegetative reproduction exists in Nostoc.