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| What is the development from long ago algae to today's plants? |
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- unicellular
- colonies
- multicellular
- multicellular lives in water
- multicellular lived on land
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| Where do green algae live? |
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| fresh water or moist areas on land |
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| Where are unusual places for green algae to live? |
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- with fungi to formlichens
- very salty water like the great salt lake
- within bodies of worm, sponges and parameium
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| How is red algae used in medical researach? |
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Definition
| used to make a jellylike nutrients mixture to grow bacteria and other mircroorganisms |
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| How do humans use red algae? |
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- eaten as food
- help crops grow
- chemicals used in ice cream, chocolate milk, salad dressing, frosting - carrageenan
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| attached to rocks at depths up to 170 meters |
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| Where do red algae live and how long do they grow? |
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- in ocean
- grow several meters long
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| What food is brown algae added to? |
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| chemicals from the algae added to food to make it smooth like salad dressings |
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| What animals eat brown algae? |
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| cattle and sheep from Ireland and Scotland |
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| China, Japan, Canada, Ireland and New Zealand |
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| any simple plant like autotroph that uses sunlight to produce food |
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| How is unicellular algae classified? |
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| How is multicellular algae classified? |
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How is blue-green bacteria classified? |
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| What is special about algae? |
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- they were the 1st plants
- fossils of algae are over 900 million years old
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| What does algae lack so they are not plants? |
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Definition
| Algae lack the special tubes that transport water and other material through the bodies of land plants |
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| What does algae not have? |
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| roots, stems or leaves and no seeds |
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| in, or near a source of water because they have no tubes |
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| Where do the phyla get their names? |
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Definition
| from pigment or colored chemicals that are fond within the cells |
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| What is special about eels? |
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Definition
- adults lay eggs on the mat of Sargassum
- the baby eels grown
- swim back to Europe
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| What are the types of brown algae? |
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- Sargassum the floats
- Kelp and rockweek that attach to sea floor
- most live in oceans
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- brown algae
- found of Sargasso Sea
- floats on top of water
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| How does red algae produce chlorophyll? |
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| it's pigments absorb small amounts of light energy and then it is transferred to the chlorophyll |
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