give an account of general characters of rhodophyceae
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General characteristics
the body may be unicellular, colonial, filamentous or multicellular.
They are usually green due to the presence of chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b and beta-carotene.
The chloroplast may be discoid, cup-shaped (e.g. Chlamydomonas), spiral or ribbon shaped (e.g. Spirogyra)
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Main characteristics of Rhodophyceae ( Red algae)
- Fresh water and marine, with multicellular and filmentous to parenchymatous body.
- Cells are eukaryotic.
- Chief pigments are chlorophyll a and d, beta carotene, lutein, fucoxanthin, myxoxanthin and violaxanthin.
- Reserve food includes floridean starch and polymers of galactan sulphate.
- Sexual reproduction is absent.
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