Where are Ulvophyceae found?
The Ulvophyceae include approximately 2000 species of marine macro-algae (green seaweeds) that grow in diverse coastal habitats, including rocky shores, coral reefs and tropical lagoons. A smaller diversity (about 200 species) occurs in freshwater or terrestrial habitats.
What are the characteristics of chlorophyta?
Examples: Chlorella, Chlamydomonas, Spirogyra, Ulva. Green seaweeds. Characteristics: Green colour from chlorophyll a and b in the same proportions as the ‘higher’ plants; beta-carotene (a yellow pigment); and various characteristic xanthophylls (yellowish or brownish pigments).
Is Chlorophyta and chlorophyceae same?
The Chlorophyceae are one of the classes of green algae, distinguished mainly on the basis of ultrastructural morphology….
| Chlorophyceae | |
|---|---|
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Subphylum: | Chlorophytina |
| Class: | Chlorophyceae Wille in Warming, 1884 |
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What is Chlorophyta used for?
Green algae are food for sea animals and humans. Green algae are used in cancer treatment. They could help reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Why is Ulva not placed in Kingdom Plantae?
Ulva is an edible green algae. It is not included in kingdom Plantae because it does not have well defined vascular system and it is a gametophyte; whereas plants are sporophyte(spore producing) and have well defined vascular systems for transport of nutrients and water throughout the plant body.
Is Dictyota a Rhodophyceae?
Option B: Gelidium and Porphyra belong to class rhodophyceae but Dictyota and fucus belong to Brown Algae.
What order is algae in?
Each cell usually has two flagella that propel it through substances such as water. Volvox may be classified as a green alga in the division Chlorophyta or as a flagellated protozoan in the order Volvocales.
What does Chlorophyta look like?
Chlorophyta (green algae) Division of algae which are typically green in colour. In common with higher land plants, green algae include chlorophylls a and b among their principal pigments, have cellulose as the main constituent of cell walls, and form food reserves of starch.
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