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Image: Chlamydomonas TEM 07

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Description: Transmission electron microscope image, showing an example of green algae (Chlorophyta). Chlamydomanas reinhardtii is a unicellular flagellate used as a model system in molecular genetics work and flagellar motility studies. This image of a thin section through a whole Chlamydomonas, shows the nucleus, chloroplast, starch grains, vacuoles, mitochondria, eye spot, and the cell wall.
Title: Chlamydomonas TEM 07
Credit: Source and public domain notice at http://remf.dartmouth.edu/imagesindex.html
Author: Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility, Dartmouth College
Permission: Released into the public domain
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License: Public domain
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