Macro, Micro, Green, Brown and Red

Question 1

What source is having the focus for biofuel?

Answer 1

Micro algae

Question 2

Why is microalgae a better resource than macroalgae?

Answer 2

microalgae grow much faster

Question 3

What is the three-way win of microalgae growing facilities?

Answer 3

cleaning water, sucking up carbon whilst running an economy

Question 4

What are the three key groups of algae?

Answer 4

Red (Rhodophyceae)

Green (Chlorophyceae)

Brown (Phaeophyceae)

Question 5

What is meiosis?

Answer 5

a type of cell division that results in four daughter cells each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell, as in the production of gametes and plant spores.

“the sporophytes of green algae form spores only by meiosis”

Question 6

What is mitosis?

Answer 6

a type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus, typical of ordinary tissue growth.

“the single large egg cell subdivides by repeated mitosis”