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Almost all unicellular eukaryotes are isogamous. [11] Among multicellular organisms, isogamy is restricted to fungi and eukaryotic algae. [12] Many species of green algae are isogamous. It is typical in the genera Ulva, Hydrodictyon, Tetraspora, Zygnema, Spirogyra, Ulothrix, and Chlamydomonas.
Chlamydomonas (/ ˌ k l æ m ɪ ˈ d ɒ m ə n ə s,-d ə ˈ m oʊ-/ KLAM-ih-DOM-ə-nəs, -də-MOH-) is a genus of green algae consisting of about 150 species [2] of unicellular flagellates, found in stagnant water and on damp soil, in freshwater, seawater, and even in snow as "snow algae". [3]
A holdfast is a rootlike structure present at the base of the alga. ... The fertilization of egg cells varies between species of brown algae, and may be isogamous, ...
The sperm cells and the egg cells will fuse, making a zygote. In most multicellular green algae, the sperm cells are small and motile, and the egg cells are large and immotile. However, in simple multicellular or unicellular algae, germ cells are typically isogamous, which means the germ cells from both parents are the same size.
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a single-cell green alga about 10 micrometres in diameter that swims with two flagella.It has a cell wall made of hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins, a large cup-shaped chloroplast, a large pyrenoid, and an eyespot apparatus that senses light.
The Chlorophyceae are one of the classes of green algae, distinguished mainly on the basis of ultrastructural morphology. [2] They are usually green due to the dominance of pigments chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b. The chloroplast may be discoid, plate-like, reticulate, cup-shaped, spiral- or ribbon-shaped in different species.
In some multicellular green algae (Ulva lactuca is one example), red algae and brown algae, sporophytes and gametophytes may be externally indistinguishable (isomorphic). In Ulva , the gametes are isogamous , all of one size, shape and general morphology.
The synurids were originally included among the golden algae in the order Ochromonadales as the family Mallomonadaceae or as the family Synuraceae . They were formally defined as a separate group by Andersen in 1987, who placed them in their own class Synurophyceae , based on an earlier approach of more narrowly defining major lineages of ...