Question

Identification features of of vaucheria

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Important Features of Vaucheria:

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

2. Reserve food is fats and oils.

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

4. Vegetative reproduction takes place by fragmentation.

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

6. Sexual reproduction is oogamous.

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7. The oogonium contains single large, uninu­cleate egg, while the antheridium contains many biflagellate antherozoids.

8. The oospore or zygote undergoes meiosis during germination and forms new Vaucheria plant.