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think about how and where sargassum lives. why do you think it has strong holdfast

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Answered by poorvitha13
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Sargassum is a genus of brown (class Phaeophyceae) macroalgae (seaweed) in the order Fucales. Numerous species are distributed throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world, where they generally inhabit shallow water and coral reefs, and the genus is widely known for its planktonic (free-floating) species. Most species within the class Phaeophyceae are predominantly cold-water organisms that benefit from nutrients upwelling, but the genus Sargassum appears to be an exception

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Answered by kshitijgrg
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Sargassum

  • Sargassum is abundant in the ocean. Upon near inspection, it is simple to peer at the numerous leafy appendages, branches, and round, berry-like systems that make up the plant. These “berries” are surely gas-filled systems, referred to as pneumatocysts, which can be crammed on the whole with oxygen.
  • Pneumatocysts upload buoyancy to the plant's shape and permit it to flow at the surface.
  • Floating rafts of Sargassum can stretch for miles throughout the ocean. This floating habitat offers meals, refuge, and breeding grounds for an array of animals consisting of fishes, sea turtles, marine birds, crabs, shrimp, and more.
  • Some animals, just like the sargassum fish (withinside the frogfish family), stay their entire lives simplest on this habitat. Sargassum serves as a number one nursery vicinity for a number of commercially crucial fishes consisting of Mahi, jacks, and amberjacks.
  • When Sargassum loses its buoyancy, it sinks to the seafloor, presenting power withinside the shape of carbon to fishes and invertebrates withinside the deep sea, therefore serving as a probably crucial addition to deep-sea meals web.

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