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chlorophyta

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Noun

large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls; classes Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Charophyceae; obviously ancestral to land plants

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Chlorophyta division Chlorophyta

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chlorophyta chlorophyte
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kingdom protoctista protoctista chlorophyta

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