Know All About Algae in Short

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                    ALGAE


Algae are chlorophyll bearing simple thalloid autotrophic and large aquatic both freshwater and marine.

✓ Fungii lichens and animal examples sloth bear.

✓ colonial form like wall wax and the filamentous form like you ulothrix and spirogyra.

• asexual reproduction is a production of different type of sports the most common being the zoospores. 

• they are flagellated motile.

• flagellated and similar in size as ulothrix aur non flagellated non motile but similar in size as spirogyra. such reproduction is called Isogamous. Fusion of gametes dissimilar in size as in species of you Eudornia is termed as angiosperms.


• fusion between one large non motile Static female gamete and smaller motile male gamete is termed to oogamous. example volvax and fucus. 


• at least half of the total carbon dioxide fixation on the earth is carried out by algae is through the photosynthesis. photosynthetic the increase that level of dissolved oxygen in their immediate environment paramount important as a primary producer of energy rich compounds.

✓ many species of Prophyra, Laminaria and Saragassumb are among the 70 species Marine algae used as food. 


✓ Algin ( brown algae) and carragreen ( red algae) which are used commercially. Agar , the commercial products obtained from gelidium and Gracilaria are used to grow microbes in the preparations of ice cream and jellies. 

Cholera unicellular algae rich in protein is used food as supplement even by space travellers.

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