What is Chloroflexi?
{{Taxobox | name = Chloroflexi | image = | image_width = 240px | image_caption = ''[[Chloroflexus]]'' | domain = [[Bacteria]] | phylum = '''Chloroflexi''' | classis = '''Chloroflexi''' | subdivision_ranks = Orders | subdivision = * ''[[Chloroflexales]]'' * ''[[Herpetosiphonales]]'' }} '''Chloroflexi''' is one of four [[Class (biology)|classes]] of [[bacteria]] that produce energy from light and are named for their green pigment, usually found in [[Photosynthesis|photosynthetic]] bodies. Chloroflexi are typically filamentous (they look like microscopic strings), and can move about through bacterial gliding. They are facultatively [[Aerobic organism|aerobic]] (they can survive with oxygen or without it), but do not produce oxygen in the process of producing energy from light, or [[phototroph]]y. Additionally Chloroflexi have a different method of phototrophy ([[photoheterotroph]]y) than true photosynthetic bacteria. [[Phylogenetic analysis]] (looking at DNA) indicates that they had a separate origin. {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Bacteria]]