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Grade 12th passBotany

sea water glows during night mainly due to occurence of
  1. gonyaulax
  2. noctiluca
  3. euglena
  4. cyclotella

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11 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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11 Years ago
The correct option is 2.
Noctiluca scintillans, commonly known as the Sea Sparkle, and also published as Noctiluca miliaris, is a free-living non-parasitic marine-dwelling species of dinoflagellate that exhibits bioluminescence, when disturbed. The bioluminescent characteristic of N. scintillans is produced by a luciferin-luciferase reaction that takes place in thousands of spherically shaped organelles, called scintillons, located throughout the cytoplasm of this single-celled protist. Nonluminescent populations within the genus Noctiluca lack these scintillons.