Plant Kingdom Flashcards
Habitat of algae
Largely aquatic fresh and marine, moist stones and woods.
association of algaes
association with fungi (lichen) and animals (e.g., on sloth bear).
Colonial algae ‘
Volvox
Filamentous algae
Ulothrix and spirogyra
Algae forming massive marine plant bodies
KELPS
Vegetative reproduction in algae
Fragmentation
Asexual reproduction in algae
Production of different types of spores like Zoospores
Zoo SPORE in algae are
Flagelated and motile
Flagellated, isogamous algae example
SPIROGYRA
Non-flagellated, isoGAMOUS algae
ULOTHRIX
Two gametes not equal in size
ANISOGAMOUS
Example of ANISOGAMOUS algae
EUDORINA
Oogamous algae example
Volvox fucus
Brown algae example
Laminaria fucus dictyota
Marine algae used as food
PORPHYRA laminaria sargassum Among the 70 species of marine algae
Hydrocolloids are produced by
Algin brown algae plus carragen red algae
Agar obtained From and usses
Gelidium and gracillaria for ice cream jellies
Space food for astronauts
Chlorella a rich in protein
Pigments of chlorophyceae
Chlorophyll a b
Green algae stored food
Starch
Brown algae stored food
Mannitol laminarin ( complex carbohydrates)
Red algae stored food
Floridean starch similar to amylopectin and glycogen
Brown algae major pigments
Chl a c fucoxanthin xanthophyll
Red algae major pigments
Chlorophyll a d phycoerythrin
Cell wall of green algae
Cellulose
Cell wall of brown algae
Cellulose and algin