Question

Write a brief notes on Ectocarpus. long question​

Answer 1

Features of Ectocarpus:

1. It is a marine brown alga, distributed throughout the temperate and tropical seas of the world.

2. Plant body is filamentous, much branched and heterotrichous, having basal rhizoids and well-developed branched erect system.

3. Both sporophytic and gametophytic plants are alike (isomorphic).