What are diatoms

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- In diatoms the cell walls form two thin overlapping shells embedded with silica.
- diatoms have left behind large amount of cell wall deposits in their habitat, which accumulated over billions of years is referred to as ‘diatomaceous earth’ .
- Most of them are photosynthetic and are the chief ‘producers’ in the oceans.
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