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    The document discusses the ecological, economic, and evolutionary significance of three divisions of algae - Chlorophyta, Rhodophyta, and Phaeophyta. It provides key details about each division, including representative organisms, habitat, morphology, typical cell structure, food storage compounds, pigments, and methods of reproduction. The algae have importance as a food source, in industrial applications such as toothpaste and soaps, and as ancestors of early land plants.

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    The document discusses the ecological, economic, and evolutionary significance of three divisions of algae - Chlorophyta, Rhodophyta, and Phaeophyta. It provides key details about each division, including representative organisms, habitat, morphology, typical cell structure, food storage compounds, pigments, and methods of reproduction. The algae have importance as a food source, in industrial applications such as toothpaste and soaps, and as ancestors of early land plants.

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    Ecological Significance

    Chlorophyta Some green algae are quick to use inorganic material from land run-off Prevent lung cancer

    Rhodophyta

    Phaeophyta

    Economic Significance Evolutionary Significance

    Japanese crop

    Alginic acids in toothpaste, ice cream, soaps, tinned meat Food

    Ancestor of modern day plants Endosymbiosis of cyanobacteria Aquatic or terrestrial (lichen or fungi) Aquatic Aquatic

    Habitat

    Representatives

    Chlorella

    Coralline algae

    Macrocystis pyriferia Laminaria hyperborea

    Morphology

    Colonial cells have flagella

    Mostly unicellular or Simple plants of can create more filaments complex structures of filaments Cell walls of cellulose, agars, and carrageenans Floridean starch, Floridoside Cell walls of cellulose and alginic acid laminaran and higher alcohols

    Typical Cell

    Food Storage Compound

    Cell walls of cellulose Membrane bound nucleus and chloroplasts Starch in plastids

    Pigments

    Chlorophyll a and b

    Phycoerythrin, phycocyanin, chlorophyll a

    Fucoxanthin, chlorophyll a and c, beta-carotene, and other xanthophylls Alteration of generations

    Reproduction

    Alternation of generations

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