Covers the general characteristics of algae and focuses on the Chlorophyceae group, with practice questions for biology exams.
Chlorophyceae show isogamous, anisogamous, or oogamous sexual reproduction, not only oogamy.
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Rhodophyceae store food as floridean starch, which is structurally similar to amylopectin and glycogen.
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Chlorophyceae (green algae) have chloroplasts of various shapes, including discoid, cup-shaped, and spiral.
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Chlorophyceae, or green algae, have chlorophyll a and b as their dominant pigments.
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Chlorophyceae (green algae) store food as starch in structures called pyrenoids within their chloroplasts.
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Chlorophyceae have 2-8 equal, apical flagella, unlike Phaeophyceae with unequal, lateral flagella.
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Volvox is a colonial green alga that forms spherical colonies composed of many individual cells.
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Rhodophyceae, or red algae, store food as floridean starch, similar to amylopectin and glycogen.
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Gelidium, a red alga (Rhodophyceae), is a major source of agar used in microbial culture media.
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Algae are not exclusively marine; they occur in freshwater, moist stones, soils, and other habitats too.
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Chlorophyceae exhibit isogamous, anisogamous, or oogamous sexual reproduction, not only anisogamy.
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Asexual reproduction in Chlorophyceae occurs via flagellated zoospores produced in zoosporangia.
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