Getting to know bacteria with 'multiple personalities'
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, have been the subject of decades of debate over exactly how they should be classified. While they reproduce and share DNA with their bacterial cousins, they are the only phylum of bacteria that can photosynthesize like plants.