Chlamydomonas

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Chlamydomonas

Chlamydomonas is a genus of green alga. They are unicellular flagellate

Flagellate

Flagellates are cell s with one or more whip-like organelles called flagellum. Some cells in animals may be flagellate, for instance the spermatozoa of most phyla....
s. Chlamydomonas is used as a model organism

Model organism

A model organism is a species that is extensively studied to understand particular biology phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made in the organism model will provide insight into the workings of other organisms....
for molecular biology

Molecular biology

Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecule level. The field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry....
, especially studies of flagellar

Flagellum

A flagellum is a tail-like structure that projects from the cell body of certain prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, and it functions in locomotion....
motility and chloroplast

Chloroplast

Chloroplasts are organelles found in plant cells and other eukaryote organisms that conduct photosynthesis. Chloroplasts capture light energy to conserve Thermodynamic free energy in the form of Adenosine triphosphate and reduce NADP to NADPH through a complex set of processes called photosynthesis....
dynamics, biogenesis, and genetics. One of the many striking features of Chlamydomonas is that it contains ion channel

Ion channel

Ion channels are pore-forming proteins that help establish and control the small voltage gradient across the plasma membrane of all living cell s by allowing the flow of ions down their electrochemical gradient....
s that are directly activated by light, such as channelrhodopsin

Channelrhodopsin

Channelrhodopsins are a subfamily of opsin proteins that function as light-gated ion channels. They serve as sensory photoreceptors in unicellular green algae, controlling phototaxis, i.e....
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Species

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

See also ChlamydomonasChlamydomonas reinhardtii is a motile Unicellular organism green alga about 10 micrometres in diameter that swims with two flagella....
Chlamydomonas moewusii
Chlamydomonas nivalis
Watermelon snow

Watermelon snow, also called snow algae, is snow that is reddish or pink in color, with the slight scent of a fresh watermelon. This type of snow is common during the summer in alpine and coastal polar regions worldwide, such as the Sierra Nevada of California....
Genus of green algae

External links

; a song by Andy Offutt Irwin
Andy Offutt Irwin

Andy Offutt Irwin is an United States Storytelling, Art education and singer-songwriter. Born in a small town in Georgia , Irwin began his career in 1984 in an improvisational theatre but after five years he shifted to performing as a singer-songwriter, touring the Southeastern United States for about six years....
about the life cycle of the chlamydomonas; posted on the website of the International Society of Protozoologists
Protozoology

Protozoology is the study of protozoa, the "animal-like" protists. This term has become dated as our understanding of the evolutionary relationships of the eukaryota has improved....