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Alga

Alga

Origin: L, seaweed.

(Science: botany) a kind of seaweed; pl. The class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.


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A question from Cloning

Well, symbiosis is a quite different thing from hybrid species. Even with lichen that is an extremely close symbiosis of an alga and a fungus the individual cells stay strictly as either fungal or algal cells; symbiosis does not form inter-species hybrids. By simply merging haploid cells ...

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by biohazard
Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:05 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: A question from Cloning
Replies: 16
Views: 491

Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?

... the Creation Research Society. "Endosymbiotic theory proposes that primary endosymbiosis of cyanobacteria by an ancestral cell gave rise to algae and plants and secondary endosymbiosis of algae by protists gave rise to photosynthetic protists. "The following quote gives us a picture ...

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by AFJ
Sat May 23, 2009 2:34 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?
Replies: 106
Views: 16672

Photosynthesis Trivia

... is released from the plant will decrease. D. Glucose production inside each plant cell will increase. 37. Much of the carbon dioxide produced by algae is not excreted as a metabolic waste because it A. can be used for photosynthesis B. cannot pass through cell membranes C. is needed for aerobic ...

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by vstexas09
Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:46 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Photosynthesis Trivia
Replies: 5
Views: 5334

Best diet???

... franceses y belgas en la árida región de Tchad en el año de 1962 y esto trajo como resultado que otros países se interesaran en producir esta alga; por ejemplo, en México la compañía Sosa Texcoco, S. A., aprovechando las aguas que sobran de su proceso industrial ricas en sosa cáustica, sal ...

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by GegnianMD
Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:38 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Best diet???
Replies: 9
Views: 1896

Effect of temperature on photosynthesis.

I am currently doing an investigtion for my biology A-level using immobilized Alga Chlorella. What effect will temperature have on photosynthesis? Will my results be linear because the increased diffusion rates of carbon dioxide are the dominant factors changing ...

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by tf
Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:18 pm
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: Effect of temperature on photosynthesis.
Replies: 2
Views: 3818
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