OTHER GREEN ALGAE Flashcards by Nancy K | Brainscape

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Chlorella

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Tiny spherical cells which reproduce via mitosis
Unicellular and sessile
Daughter cells stay together in packets

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Desmids

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Crescent shaped, elliptical and star shaped cells
Free floating and unicellular
Conjugation

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Volvox

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Form colonies held by a gelatinous mucilage
Some colones contain cells that are connected via cytoplasmic strands
Colonial and motile

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Ulva

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Multicellular
Diploid blades develop into haploid blades which bear gametangia
Gametes fuse = zygote
Haploid and diploid blades look the same = isomorphism

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Cladophora

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Branched and filamentous
Found in both marine and freshwater
Multinucleate

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Acetabularia

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Marine alga
Single and huge cell shaped like a mushroom
Isogamous Sexual rep

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Hydrodictyion

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Form tubular colonies with hexagonal meshes
Daughter net may be asexually reproduced inside the parent cell
Isogamous sexual rep
-Zygote - to ZS. Produce large angular cells with each becoming a netlike colony
Released from the parent as it breaks down

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