Chloroplasts visible inside cells are green or yellow-green
5. Please select the cell wall details.
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Some cell walls have cell division scars visible at one end; pyrenoids present in chloroplasts
Oedogonium -
Cell wall is smooth and featureless; filaments are short and easily dissociated; chloroplasts one to a few per cell, small and discoid.
Stichococcus -
Cells have constrictions between them (filamentous desmids)
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Cell walls composed of overlapping pieces that are H-shaped in optical section (often visible at break points); pyrenoids absent from chloroplasts
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Cell wall is smooth and featureless; filaments are long and cells are not easily dissociated.
