Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Classification of Algae
- Chrysophyta
- Golden - brown algae
- produce domoic acid
- unicellular
- cell wall - peptin and silica
- sexual reproduction
- storage material - oil
- Euglenophyta
- Green colour
- unicellular flagellated
- no sexual reproduction
- storage material - glucose polymer
- can spontaneously lost chlorophyll (dark)
- Pyrrophyta
- unicellular plankton
- Brownish
- 2 flagella in perpendicular opposing grooves
- can cause 'red tides'
- cell wall - cellulose
- storage material - starch
- Chlorophyta
- Green algae
- cellulose cell walls
- unicellular or multicellular
- cholorophyll a and b
- store glucose polymer
- Phaeophyta
- Brownish colour
- macroscopic
- multicellular
- cell wall - cellulose / algin
- sexual reproduction
- storage material - carbohydrate
- Rhodophyta
- Reddish colour
- red pigment absorb blue light
- cell wall - cellulose / agar
- sexual reproduction
- habitat - marine