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What is the difference? between heterocyst and akinetes |
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Answer» Akinetes (GREEK “akinetos”) are motionless, spore-like resting cells that DIFFERENTIATE from vegetative cells and serve in PERENNATION. Akinetes are larger (sometimes up to 10-fold) than vegetative cells, and heterocysts possess thickened cell wall and a multilayered extracellular envelope (Adams and DUGGAN, 1999). |
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