What is Algae

Algae are not plants

What Algae need

Algae are subject to extreme environments

Plankton

Phytoplankton

Zooplankton

Blooms

Blooms (2)

Importance of CO2

Algal Groups

Dinophyta

Gonyaluax polyedra

Reproduction (dinophyta)

photosynthetic pigments (dinophyta)

Carbohydrate food reserve

dinophyta flagellum

Dinophyta Armour

Dinophyta nutrition

Symbiosis (dinophyta)

Cysts (dinophyta)

Haptophytes

Haptophytes (2)

Coccoliths (Haptophytes)

Emilliania huxleyi

Photosynthetic (Haptophyta)

CNN Haptophytes

Diatoms (Bacillariophyta)

Diatoms (2)

Diatom Symmetry

Diatom reproduction

Diatoms resting cells

Diatoms (3)

Diatoms phtosynthetic

Diatom Plastids

Diatoms food reserve

Red Algae (Rhodophyta)

Red algae (2)

Red algae photosynthetic

Red algae cell wall