Three types of Algae
Definition of Algae - a very large and diverse group of eukaryotic organisms
There are three types of algae and they are...
1) brown algae
2) red algae
3) Green Algae
unicellular
Colonial
Multicellular
There are three types of algae and they are...
1) brown algae
- Kingdom: Protista
- Phylum: heterokontophyta
- mostly marine and temperate
- example: seaweed
2) red algae
- kingdom: Protista
- Phylum: Rhodophyta
- most common in warmer tropical waters
- found in deeper water in temperate zones
- example: seaweed
3) Green Algae
- Kingdom: Protista
- Phylum: Chlorophyta
- Very diverse group
- example: Seaweed
- includes three forms: unicellular, colonial, and multicellular
- live in all environments: fresh/salt water and soil
unicellular
- very common in fresh water as part of phytoplankton
- example: chlamydomonas sp.
Colonial
- live in long filaments or as colonial spheres
- example: gonium
Multicellular
- mostly marine
- ancestors of land plants
- example: volvox