Schizophytes. Vegetables, plants. Vegetal kingdom. Flora.

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Schizophytes are the simplest vegetables with the simplest and most primitive organization.

They are unicellular, lack a differentiated nucleus and do not have chloroplasts, however, some have synthesizing pigments and even chlorophyll.

Their characteristics place them on the border of the Plant and Animal kingdoms, although some carry out photosynthesis processes, so that some authors consider them to belong to the Monera Kingdom.

They include Bacteria or Schizomycetes and Blue-green Algae or Cyanophytes or Myxomycetes.

Bacteria or schizomycetes.

Bacteria are microscopic single-celled organisms, without a nucleus or chlorophyll, which can appear naked or with a gelatinous capsule, isolated or in groups, and can have cilia or flagella.

They are of great importance in nature, as they are present in the natural cycles of nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus, etc., and can transform organic substances into inorganic ones and vice versa.

They are also very important in fermentations used by industry and in the production of antibiotics.

They play an important factor in the destruction of dead plants and animals.

They are also the cause of many infectious diseases, some of which are serious, in plants, animals and humans.

KINDS OF BACTERIA

They can be spherical (cocci), elongated (bacilli), comma-shaped (vibrios) or spiral (spirilli).

Bacteria reproduce by partition (A) or by sporulation (b).

Cyanophytes.

Cyanophytes or blue algae (also known as myxophycea or schizophycea) are considered very primitive algae, unicellular, without a nucleus, almost always surrounded by gelatinous slime.
They can live isolated or forming colonies.

When they form colonies they look like masses or filaments.
They live in humid environments (even in glaciers or hot springs at high temperatures) and can associate with fungi to form lichens.
They reproduce by division and can form long-lasting spores.

Single-celled algae form a large part of the marine "phytoplankton" and alone carry out most of the photosynthesis of the earth, which is the essential function for the production of oxygen.

These microscopic algae are made up of a single cell, although some are grouped together forming filaments or colonies.

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