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Which of the following organisms show bioluminescence?

Option: 1

Noctiluca


Option: 2

Gonyaulax


Option: 3

Cymbella


Option: 4

Navicula


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Economic importance of Dinoflagellates

  • Gymnodinium and Gonyaulax make the water look red causing red tides.
  • Gonyaulax catenella produces a neurotoxin, saxitoxin, which can cause causing paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) in the vertebrates when shellfish infected by saxitoxin is consumed by vertebrates.
  • Noctiluca shows bioluminescence i.e. they emit light.  

  Noctiluca shows bioluminescence. 

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