This class of algae is characterized by being either freshwater or marine with unicellular or multicellular bodies, containing chlorophyll a and b as well as various carotenes as chief pigments, and storing starch as their primary food reserve.
This class of algae is characterized by being either freshwater or marine with unicellular or multicellular bodies, containing chlorophyll a and b as well as various carotenes as chief pigments, and storing starch as their primary food reserve.
This class of algae is characterized by being either freshwater or marine with unicellular or multicellular bodies, containing chlorophyll a and b as well as various carotenes as chief pigments, and storing starch as their primary food reserve.
Fresh water or marine algae, with unicellular or multicellular body.
Cells are eukaryotic, containing cellulose in the cellwall. Chief pigments include chlorophyll a and b, alpha, beta and gamma carotenes, lycopene, hexanthin, lentin, violaxanthin and astaxanthin. Reserve food includes starch and very rarely oils.