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In its simplest form farmers gather from natural beds, while at the other extreme farmers fully control the crop's life cycle. The seven most cultivated taxa are Eucheuma spp., Kappaphycus alvarezii, Gracilaria spp., Saccharina japonica, Undaria pinnatifida, Pyropia spp., and Sargassum fusiforme.
Alternation of generations (also known as metagenesis or heterogenesis) [1] is the predominant type of life cycle in plants and algae. In plants both phases are multicellular : the haploid sexual phase – the gametophyte – alternates with a diploid asexual phase – the sporophyte .
Brown algae exist in a wide range of sizes and forms. The smallest members of the group grow as tiny, feathery tufts of threadlike cells no more than a few centimeters (a few inches) long. [6] Some species have a stage in their life cycle that consists of only a few cells, making the entire alga microscopic.
These algae have a relatively simple life cycle and produce only one type of thallus which grows to a maximum size of 2 m. [citation needed] Fertile cavities, the conceptacles, containing the reproductive cells are immersed in the receptacles near the ends of the branches.
Batrachospermum is a genus of red algae from the family Batrachospermaceae.Due to its complex biological life cycle, descriptions of the taxon typically focus on gametophytes, while sporophytes, i.e., carposporophytes, are filamentous structures growing on the gametophyte, on which they depend.
In biology, a biological life cycle (or just life cycle when the biological context is clear) is a series of stages of the life of an organism, that begins as a zygote, often in an egg, and concludes as an adult that reproduces, producing an offspring in the form of a new zygote which then itself goes through the same series of stages, the ...
Green algae are a group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms that include species with haplobiontic and diplobiontic life cycles. The diplobiontic species, such as Ulva , follow a reproductive cycle called alternation of generations in which two multicellular forms, haploid and diploid, alternate, and these may or may not be isomorphic ...
The life-cycle of the red algae has three stages . In Polysiphonia it consists of a sequence of a gametangial , carpospoangial and tetrasporangial phases. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ page needed ] Male ( haploid ) plants (the male gametophytes ) produce spermatia and the female plants (the female gametophytes) produce the carpogonium (the haploid ...