Non-pathogenic: Anabaena is categorized as cyanobacteria. This bacterium doesn't have chloroplasts but does possess the pigment chlorophyll a, which allows oxygenic photosynthesis.

Does Anabaena contain chlorophyll?

Summary. Heterocysts of autotrophically grown Anabaena cylindrica contain about 77% as much chlorophyll as do vegetative cells, have little phycocyanin, and appear to lack myxoxanthophyll.

Do cyanobacteria have chloroplasts?

Like all other prokaryotes, cyanobacteria lack a membrane-bound nucleus, mitochondria, Golgi apparatus, chloroplasts, and endoplasmic reticulum. ... All of the functions carried out in eukaryotes by these membrane-bound organelles are carried out in prokaryotes by the bacterial cell membrane.