Polytomella

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Polytomella
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Viridiplantae
Phylum:
Chlorophyta
Class:
Chlorophyceae
Order:
Chlamydomonadales
Family:
Chlamydomonadaceae
Genus:
Polytomella
Species

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Polytomella is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Chlamydomonadaceae.[1] Polytomella is a free-living, flagellated, nonphotosynthetic green alga with a highly reduced, linear fragmented mitochondrial genome.[2][3] Polytomella, as it exists today, bears evidence of once having a functional photosynthetic plastid which has over evolutionary time changed such that it would appear now to have no genome or gene expressing mechanisms remaining to it.[4] Having transitioned completely to heterotrophy, Polytomella uses organic acids, alcohols and monosaccharides as its carbon source.[3][5][6] Despite being an evolutionary descendent of the green algae, Polytomella is a colourless organism because it has lost its photosynthetic ability.[6]

References

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