About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Algal bloom, Phycology, Red tide, Haptophyte, Euglenid, Seaweed fertiliser, History of phycology, Algaculture, Photosynthetic picoplankton, Algae scrubber, Kleptoplasty, Valonia ventricosa, Frustule, Picobiliphyte, Glaucophyte, Chromista, RedToL, Conceptacle, Paradox of the plankton, Artificial seawater, Chlorarachniophyte, Phycologia Australica, Nannochloropsis, AlgaeBase, Phycoerythrin, Heterosigma akashiwo, Pennales, Limu, List of coralline algae species in the British Isles, Shiro alga carta, Receptacle, Phycocyanin, SERI microalgae culture collection, Grypania, Ice algae, Algal mat, Vaucheria, Phycoerythrobilin, GEOHAB, Algal nutrient solutions, Glow plate, Polyquat, Algaecide, Cryptophytes, Phycobiliprotein, Mastigonemes, Gonimoblast, Margaretia, Sea wrack, Trichocyte, Ahnfeltia, Palaeocymopolia, Chaetocladus captitatus, Eocladus, Zoid, Reproductive initials, Biliphyta, Gonidium, Thallophyca, Epithallium, Pycnoporidium. Excerpt: Algae ( or; singular alga, Latin for "seaweed") are a large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic organisms, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms, such as the giant kelps that grow to 65 meters in length. They are photosynthetic like plants, and "simple" because their tissues are not organized into the many distinct organs found in land plants. The largest and most complex marine forms are called seaweeds. Though the prokaryotic cyanobacteria (commonly referred to as blue-green algae) were traditionally included as "algae" in older textbooks, many modern sources regard this as outdated as they are now considered to be bacteria. The term algae is now restricted to eukaryotic organisms. All true algae therefore have a nucleus enclosed within a membrane and plastids bound in one or more membranes. Algae constitute a paraphyletic and polyphyletic group, as they do...
