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The comparison between colonial and filamentous cyanobacteria based on their life cycle and means of nitrogen fixation.

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Cyanobacteria are also called blue-green algae because of their appearance. They possess a blue phycocyanin pigment. They are autotrophic so obtain their energy by the process called photosynthesis. Cyanobacteria are the only prokaryotes that possess both types of photosystems I and II. They may be unicellular, filamentous or colonial.

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