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Gram-Negative Oxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria

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Gram Negative Oxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria

Widely distributed unicellular or multicellular bacteria. The CYANOBACTERIA use chlorophyll a and phycobilins for oxygenic photosynthesis while genera in the Prochlorales use both chlorophyll a and b but not phycobilins.