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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Volvox, Chlorophyta, Chlamydomonas, Chlorella, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Caulerpa taxifolia, Watermelon snow, Hijiki, Codium, Dunaliella, Prasinophyceae, Halimeda, Ostreococcus tauri, Eudorina, Chaetosphaeridium globosum, Chara, Pleodorina, Charophyceae, Mesostigma, Charophyta, Volvocales, Haematococcus, Streptophytina, Gonium, Water net, Pandorina, Oedogoniales, Nitella flexilis, Pleurastrophyceae, Yamagishiella, Caulerpa lentillifera, Chlorella pyrenoidosa, Aonori, Raphidonema, Sphaeropleales, Astrephomene, Chlorococcales, Dictyochloropsis reticulata, Neochloris oleoabundans, Wislouchiella, Botryococcus, Prototheca wickerhamii, Trebouxiophyceae, Tetraselmis chuii, Micrasterias furcata, Scenedesmus acuminatus, Tetraselmis suecica, Chara vulgaris, Halimeda tuna, Penicillus capitatus, Parietochloris incisa, Neochloris terrestris, UTC clade. Excerpt: Chlorella is a genus of single-celled green algae, belonging to the phylum Chlorophyta. It is spherical in shape, about 2 to 10 m in diameter, and is without flagella. Chlorella contains the green photosynthetic pigments chlorophyll-a and -b in its chloroplast. Through photosynthesis it multiplies rapidly requiring only carbon dioxide, water, sunlight, and a small amount of minerals to reproduce. The name Chlorella is taken from the Greek word chloros which means "green" and the Latin diminutive suffix ella meaning "small." German biochemist and cell physiologist Otto Heinrich Warburg, awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on cell respiration in 1931, also studied photosynthesis in Chlorella. In 1961 Melvin Calvin of the University of California received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on the pathways of carbon dioxide assimilation in plants using Chlorella. In recent years, researchers have made less use of Chlorella as a...
