Size

Range ~10 μm
Organism Green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Reference Merchant et al., The Chlamydomonas Genome Reveals the Evolution of Key Animal and Plant Functions, Science, Vol 318, Issue 5848, 2007 p.245 left columnPubMed ID17932292
Comments Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a ~10µm, unicellular, soil-dwelling green alga with multiple mitochondria, two anterior flagella for motility and mating, and a chloroplast that houses the photosynthetic apparatus and critical metabolic pathways
Entered by Uri M
ID 107595