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Algae Types: Ecology, Economy, Evolution

The document discusses the ecological, economic, and evolutionary significance of three divisions of algae - Chlorophyta, Rhodophyta, and Phaeophyta. It provides key details about each division, including representative organisms, habitat, morphology, typical cell structure, food storage compounds, pigments, and methods of reproduction. The algae have importance as a food source, in industrial applications such as toothpaste and soaps, and as ancestors of early land plants.

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Algae Types: Ecology, Economy, Evolution

The document discusses the ecological, economic, and evolutionary significance of three divisions of algae - Chlorophyta, Rhodophyta, and Phaeophyta. It provides key details about each division, including representative organisms, habitat, morphology, typical cell structure, food storage compounds, pigments, and methods of reproduction. The algae have importance as a food source, in industrial applications such as toothpaste and soaps, and as ancestors of early land plants.

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Ecological Significance

Chlorophyta Some green algae are quick to use inorganic material from land run-off Prevent lung cancer

Rhodophyta

Phaeophyta

Economic Significance Evolutionary Significance

Japanese crop

Alginic acids in toothpaste, ice cream, soaps, tinned meat Food

Ancestor of modern day plants Endosymbiosis of cyanobacteria Aquatic or terrestrial (lichen or fungi) Aquatic Aquatic

Habitat

Representatives

Chlorella

Coralline algae

Macrocystis pyriferia Laminaria hyperborea

Morphology

Colonial cells have flagella

Mostly unicellular or Simple plants of can create more filaments complex structures of filaments Cell walls of cellulose, agars, and carrageenans Floridean starch, Floridoside Cell walls of cellulose and alginic acid laminaran and higher alcohols

Typical Cell

Food Storage Compound

Cell walls of cellulose Membrane bound nucleus and chloroplasts Starch in plastids

Pigments

Chlorophyll a and b

Phycoerythrin, phycocyanin, chlorophyll a

Fucoxanthin, chlorophyll a and c, beta-carotene, and other xanthophylls Alteration of generations

Reproduction

Alternation of generations

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