Photosynthesis based on chlorophyll a , as in other algae and green plants, unlike other photosynthetic bacteria . Pigments located on thylakoids, but these are not inside chloroplasts . Phycobilisomes also in Rhodophyta. R eserve polysaccharide is cyanophycean starch in tiny granules. DNA bundled up in the center of the protoplast, not in a nucleus.
Cells are often with mucilage sheaths .
Transformation and conjugation, as in other bacteria, may bring about genetic recombination. Chris Lobban .