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What is the shape of chlamydomonas?
Chlamydomonas is the name given to a genus of microscopic, unicellular green plants (algae) which live in fresh water. Typically their single-cell body is approximately spherical, about 0.02 mm across, with a cell wall surrounding the cytoplasm and a central nucleus.

Two filaments of cytoplasm, flagella, (sing. flagellum), extend from one end, and their whip-like lashings pull the chlamydomonas through the water and rotate it at the same time. A single, cup-shaped chloroplast occupies the greater part of the cell. In this chloroplast is a protein region called a pyrenoid, which is involved in starch production and is often surrounded by starch granules.


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