OCB 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Coralline Algae, Brown Algae, Red Algae

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Blade the leaf like portion of the thallus of aseaweed. Brown algae seaweeds with a predominance of yellow and vrown pigmints. Red alga that deposits calcium carbonate in their thallus. Encrusting discribing an organism that grown as a crust over rocks and other hard surfaces. Fucoxanthin the yellow to golden brown photosynthesis pigmints of brown algae. Green algae seaweeds in which chlorophyll is not masked by other pigmints. Holdfast the root like portion of the thallus of the seaweed. Pneumatocyst a gas filled bladder in a seaweed. Red algae seaweeds that contain characteristics red pigmints. Rockweeds brown algae such as fucus that inhabit rocky shore in temperate areas. Spore the asexual sometimes resistant structure produced by some algae. Stipe the steam like portion of the thallus of a seaweed. Agar a commercially important phycocolliod found in red algea. Alternation of generations (107) a reproductial cycle in which a sexual stage alternates with an asezual one.

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