Division Euglenophyta (Noun)
Meaning
Free-swimming flagellate algae.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Euglenophyta, a group of free-swimming flagellate algae, have two flagella of unequal length, and most are capable of both autotrophy and heterotrophy.
- A distinguishing feature of Euglenophyta is the absence of cell walls, although some species can secrete a pellicle.
- All species of the class Euglenophyta possess at least two flagella for motility and sometimes, but not always, these can be lost due to adverse conditions.
- These freshwater Euglenophyta may either reproduce sexually or asexually and include green species like Trachelomonas, where this latter trait applies.
- Since division Euglenophyta flagella insert at a channel lined by M+M basal bodies the paraxonemal structure disappears along this.