I am an unbranched filamentous green alga of genus Spirogyra. I have beautiful ribbon shaped chloroplasts tastefully arranged in spirals within my cells.
I can reproduce both asexually and sexually. Embarrassingly, the latter is occurring in the photo above, where two neighboring filaments are connected by conjugation tubes. This image was mistakenly printed by a tabloid whose myopic editors thought they’d caught a member of Spyro Gyra in the act. Now I’m left to deal with a rug that’s been micturated upon and a jazz fusion band that won’t return my calls. FML.
Image from here.
