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These Cyanobacteria live in a gelatinous sphere. These spheres are just beginning to divide. It is not cell division because it is the colony that divides. The individual Cyanobacteria are the small cells inside that form long strands. Some of the cells are larger.

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Image copyright: Wim van Egmond 1999


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