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How is cyanobacteria classified?

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For many years they were classified in the plant kingdom along with algae but discoveries made possible by the electron microscope and new biochemical techniques have shown them to be prokaryotes more similar to bacteria than to plants and they are now placed in the kingdom Monera .

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