• Postelsia palmaeformis, also known as the sea palm (not to be confused with the southern sea palm) or palm seaweed, is a species of kelp and classified within brown algae. (wikipedia.org)
  • When Italian botanist Achille Forti (1878-1937) worked on the specimens in 1926, they were reinterpreted as close relatives of Postelsia, now known to be a brown algae, which had lived in the coastal waters of the Eocene sea. (wikipedia.org)
  • Like most brown algae, Postelsia goes through alternation of generations, and is an annual species. (wikipedia.org)
  • Brown algae are the major seaweeds of the temperate and polar regions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Most brown algae live in marine environments, where they play an important role both as food and as a potential habitat . (wikipedia.org)
  • Many brown algae, such as members of the order Fucales , commonly grow along rocky seashores. (wikipedia.org)
  • Between 1,500 and 2,000 species of brown algae are known worldwide. (wikipedia.org)
  • Brown algae belong to the group Heterokontophyta , a large group of eukaryotic organisms distinguished most prominently by having chloroplasts surrounded by four membranes, suggesting an origin from a symbiotic relationship between a basal eukaryote and another eukaryotic organism. (wikipedia.org)
  • Most brown algae contain the pigment fucoxanthin , which is responsible for the distinctive greenish-brown color that gives them their name. (wikipedia.org)
  • Brown algae are unique among heterokonts in developing into multicellular forms with differentiated tissues , but they reproduce by means of flagellated spores and gametes that closely resemble cells of other heterokonts. (wikipedia.org)
  • Brown algae exist in a wide range of sizes and forms. (wikipedia.org)
  • Other groups of brown algae grow to much larger sizes. (wikipedia.org)
  • In form, the brown algae range from small crusts or cushions [10] to leafy free-floating mats formed by species of Sargassum . (wikipedia.org)
  • [11] Second, all brown algae are multicellular . (wikipedia.org)
  • There are no known species that exist as single cells or as colonies of cells, [11] and the brown algae are the only major group of seaweeds that does not include such forms. (wikipedia.org)
  • b) Brown algae have chlorophyll a and c and fucoxanthin. (recruitmenttopper.com)
  • Description of Phaeophyceae (Brown Algae): They are commonly known as brown algae, due to the presence of a golden brown xanthophyll pigment, fucoxanthin (C40H54O6) in the chromatophores. (andymatthewsphotography.com)
  • brown algae brown algae, (class Phaeophyceae), class of about 1,500 species of algae in the division Chromophyta, common in cold waters along continental coasts. (andymatthewsphotography.com)
  • Major pigments found in brown algae (class - Phaeophyceae) are chlorophyll a and c, and fucoxanthin, flavoxanthin, violaxanthin and lutein. (andymatthewsphotography.com)
  • In phaeophyaeae or brown algae, chkrophyll-a chlorophyll-c, carotenes, xanthophylls and fucoxanthin (which gives brown colour) pigments are present. (andymatthewsphotography.com)
  • Chlorophyll-b is absent in brown algae. (andymatthewsphotography.com)
  • Description of Phaeophyceae (Brown Algae): It is a large group of algae consisting of 240 genera and over 1,500 species out of which 32 genera and 93 species are reported from India. (andymatthewsphotography.com)
  • How to classify Phaeophyceae (brown algae)? (andymatthewsphotography.com)
  • Classification of Phaeophyceae (Brown Algae): Fritsch (1935, 45) classified the Class. (andymatthewsphotography.com)
  • The methods of reproduction in Phaeophyceae are very diverse and a brief summary of the principal methods has been given below: Many brown algae reproduce by vegetative method by the pro-cess of fragmentation of the young or adult thallus. (andymatthewsphotography.com)
  • Not as large as brown algae, the red seaweed body (thallus) is built of complex, branched filaments. (sea-of-greens.com)
  • The appearance of the plant fossil is a holdfast on the bottom, with a stem-like stipe between there and the fronds which are about 5 centimetres (2.0 in) to 10 cm (3.9 in). (wikipedia.org)
  • Like all seaweeds, the sporophyte stage of Postelsia consists of a thallus, which is made up of a stem-like stipe topped with possibly over 100 leaf-like blades, and rests on a root-like holdfast. (wikipedia.org)
  • alga ), comprising the class Phaeophyceae , are a large group of multicellular algae , including many seaweeds located in colder waters within the Northern Hemisphere . (wikipedia.org)
  • Phaeophyceae has a multicellular filamentous cells whose cell walls are composed of cellulose. (andymatthewsphotography.com)
  • These are truly multicellular organisms, consisting of a variety of differentiated multicellular structures including a holdfast, stipe, and blade(s). (andymatthewsphotography.com)
  • Describe the thallus of red algae. (samacheer-kalvi.com)
  • F.E. Fritsch proposed a classification for algae-based on pigmentation, types of flagella, reserve food materials, thallus structure and reproduction. (samacheer-kalvi.com)
  • The particular shade depends upon the amount of fucoxanthin present in the alga. (wikipedia.org)
  • The gametophyte stage is microscopic, consisting of only a few cells. (wikipedia.org)
  • [6] Some species have a stage in their life cycle that consists of only a few cells, making the entire alga microscopic. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some kelp species have very thick wide fronds or large leaf-like blades attached to a main stipe. (foodpharmacy.blog)
  • Brown seaweed (also known as Kelp) contains approximately 1,500 species, and comprises the largest and most complex body structure of any other algae. (sea-of-greens.com)
  • A few algae grow on the surface of aquatic plants and are called epiphytic algae (Coleochaete, and Rhodymenia). (samacheer-kalvi.com)
  • the stipe is only for support of the organism and holds the fronds up over other organisms so they can receive more light. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is an annual, and edible, though harvesting of the alga is discouraged due to the species' sensitivity to overharvesting. (wikipedia.org)
  • Green algae range from the single-celled to moderately complex structures. (sea-of-greens.com)
  • He published his classification in the book "The structure and reproduction of Algae" (1935). (samacheer-kalvi.com)
  • Dunaliella salina grows in salt pans (Halophytic algae), which can tolerate high concentration of salt content. (samacheer-kalvi.com)
  • 14. Archaebacteria differ from eubacteria in (AIPMT 2014) (a) cell membrane structure (b) mode of nutrition (c) cell shape (d) mode of reproduction. (recruitmenttopper.com)
  • The bulbous part gradually differentiates into elongated, solid, cylindrical structure, the stipe and the hemispherical region differentiates into a round, convex region, looks like the top of an open umbrella, the pileus (Fig. 4.72E). (biologydiscussion.com)
  • Genetic studies show their closest relatives to be the yellow-green algae . (wikipedia.org)
  • The smallest members of the group grow as tiny, feathery tufts of threadlike cells no more than a few centimeters (a few inches) long. (wikipedia.org)
  • Spores on germi-nation develop into monokaryotic or primary mycelium, either + or - type (Fig. 4.70A, B). The primary mycelium is short-lived and it soon transforms into dikaryotic or secondary mycelium (Fig. 4.70C) by the fusion of two cells of different monokaryotic mycelium (+ and -) following clamp connection (Fig. 4.71). (biologydiscussion.com)
  • Towards the bottom of the hemispherical region some hyphae are drawn apart and form a ring-like cavity, the prelameliar chamber (Fig. 4.72B, C). The upper surface of prelameliar chamber becomes deeply concave and lined with alternating radial bands of slow and rapidly divi-ding cells. (biologydiscussion.com)
  • 5. In which group of organisms the cell walls form two thin overlapping shells which fit together? (recruitmenttopper.com)
  • The cell wall dissolves at the point of contact and a dikaryon (n + n) is formed (Fig. 4.71 B, C). This dikaryo-tic cell develops into dikaryotic myceli-um by regular cell divisions through clamp connection (Fig. 4.71 D-G). The dikaryotic mycelia are subterranean and after aggregation at some points they form button which remains dormant before the rain comes during late sum-mer. (biologydiscussion.com)
  • In life, the fronds would have hung vertically whenever the plant was submerged during high tide, and would have flopped over the stipe when the plant was exposed during low tide in a habitus similar to that of the living sea palm. (wikipedia.org)
  • The stipe is merely a firm, hollow tube, able to withstand the open air of low tide conditions as well as the crashing waves of high tide. (wikipedia.org)
  • Gas-filled bladders cause the upper end of the stipe to float on the ocean surface. (sea-of-greens.com)
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