Introduction

• Chlamydomonas

-Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular green alga. Chlamydomonas swims with two flagella, and has chloroplasts for photosynthesis.

• 10 microns in diameterFlagella are 10 microns long.

• grows quickly

• forms colonies on plates

• two mating types

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