Question

apical meaning in cholorophycaea

Answer 1

a class of algae (division Chlorophyta) distinguished chiefly by having a clear green color, their chlorophyll being masked or altered little or not at all by other pigments.

Answer 2

Chlorophyceae (chloros, green; phyceae, algal organisation) is commonly known as green algae’. Fritsch (1935) considered to include the green algae under the class Chlorophyceae, which have been raised to the rank of division Chlorophyta by Smith (1938), Tippo (1942) and Bold (1950).

Later Prescott (1969) and Round (1973) considered it to the rank of phylum Chlorophyta. Papenfuss (1946) included the suffix ‘phyco’ to the divisions of algae and named chlorophyta as Chlorophycophyta. Later Bold and Wynne (1978) also followed the same suggestion. Considering more appropriate, the classification of Fritsch (1935) is followed in this book.