Question

Describe special features in structure and life history of vaucheria. Discuss it's systematic position. long question​

Answer 1

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Important Features of Vaucheria:

• Plant body is filamentous, coenocytic and branched. It remains attached with the sub­stratum by rhizoids.

• Reserve food is fats and oils.

• Reproduction takes place by all the three means : Vegetative, Asexual and Sexual.

• Vegetative reproduction takes place by fragmentation.

• Asexual reproduction takes place by compound multiflagellate zoospores i.e., synzoospores, aplanospores, hypnospores and akinetes.

• Sexual reproduction is oogamous.

Vaucheria is a genus of Xanthophyceae or yellow-green algae. It is one of only two genera in the family Vaucheriaceae. The type species of the genus is Vaucheria disperma. Vaucheria exhibits apical growth from the tip of filaments forming mats in either terrestrial or freshwater environments.

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