How do you use Cyanobacterium in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Cyanobacterium in a sentence
Cyanobacterium meaning
Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria.
Using Cyanobacterium
- The main meaning on this page is: Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria.
- In the example corpus, cyanobacterium often appears in combinations such as: the cyanobacterium.
Context around Cyanobacterium
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cyanobacterium
- In this selection, "cyanobacterium" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, living, photosynthetic, photosynthesizing, anabaena, depicted and prochlorococcus stand out and add context to how "cyanobacterium" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a photosynthesizing cyanobacterium that became and a photosynthetic cyanobacterium and failed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cyanobacterium" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cyanobacterium
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Notice the inclusion of the cyanobacterium Nostoc with plants. (9 words)
A cell must have captured a photosynthetic cyanobacterium and failed to digest it. (13 words)
Paulinella chromatophora is a freshwater amoeboid which has recently (evolutionarily speaking) taken on a cyanobacterium as an endosymbiont. (18 words)
He could not even have known all of the sources of photosynthesis: for example the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus —which accounts for more than half of marine photosynthesis—was not discovered until 1986. (31 words)
Primary endosymbiosis Primary endosymbiosis Primary endosymbiosis A eukaryote with mitochondria engulfed a cyanobacterium in an event of serial primary endosymbiosis, creating a lineage of cells with both organelles. (28 words)
Both the chloroplast and cyanobacterium depicted are idealized versions (the chloroplast is that of a higher plant )—a lot of diversity exists among chloroplasts and cyanobacteria. (26 words)
Example sentences (10)
In this study, the researchers identified and characterized the first c-di-GMP receptor, CdgR, from the cyanobacterium Anabaena.
Many algae and plant species contain photosynthetic membrane-bound organelles called plastids that are actually remnants of a free-living cyanobacterium.
A cell must have captured a photosynthetic cyanobacterium and failed to digest it.
Both the chloroplast and cyanobacterium depicted are idealized versions (the chloroplast is that of a higher plant )—a lot of diversity exists among chloroplasts and cyanobacteria.
He could not even have known all of the sources of photosynthesis: for example the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus —which accounts for more than half of marine photosynthesis—was not discovered until 1986.
Notice the inclusion of the cyanobacterium Nostoc with plants.
Over time, the cyanobacterium was assimilated, and many of its genes were lost or transferred to the nucleus of the host.
Paulinella chromatophora is a freshwater amoeboid which has recently (evolutionarily speaking) taken on a cyanobacterium as an endosymbiont.
Primary endosymbiosis Primary endosymbiosis Primary endosymbiosis A eukaryote with mitochondria engulfed a cyanobacterium in an event of serial primary endosymbiosis, creating a lineage of cells with both organelles.
They are considered to have originated from cyanobacteria through endosymbiosis —when a eukaryotic cell engulfed a photosynthesizing cyanobacterium that became a permanent resident in the cell.
Common combinations with cyanobacterium
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: