Cryptophyta (Noun)
Meaning
A phylum in the kingdom Protoctista.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The Cryptophyta phylum is composed primarily of flagellate unicells with an ovoid body shape.
- They are grouped in the Kingdom Protoctista due to the absence of a common morphological feature uniting all of them, primarily the Cryptophyta.
- Each cell of the members of the Cryptophyta phylum has a combination of characteristics of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell.
- Cryptophyta is typically characterized by possession of two flagella, identical in length and identical in form at right angles to each other.
- In phylogenetic analysis, the members of the Cryptophyta often fell together as sister group to the alveolate lineage within the large group of chromalveolate organisms