Vocabulary List for the Algae

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Cyanobacteria (Blue-Green Algae) Phaeophyta

(brown algae)

Chrsyophyta

(Bacillariophyta)

Chlorophyta (Green Algae)
Anabaenaantheridium cells dividinga colony of 4-cells
chains of cellsblade centricaxial chloroplast.
heterocystsbranched filament epithecachloroplast
Gloeotrichia chloroplasts. frustuleClosterium
akinetesconceptacle girdleconjugation
prokaryoticdichomtously branched thallus hypothecaconjugation tube
Merismopedia Ectocarpuspennate Cosmarium
colonyeggs raphedaughter colonies
NostocFucus silicon dioxidedesmid
gelatinous matrixgametic meiosis single cellEudorina
Oscillatoria holdfaststria flagella
an unbranched filament Laminariavalve Microasterias
LyngbyaNereocystis motile colony
trichomeoogonium Mougeotia
plurangium nuclei
pneumatocyst parietal chloroplast
receptacle parietal chloroplast
sporic meiosis Scenedesmus
stipe spine-like projections
unbranched filament Spirogyra
unilocular meiosporangium Spirogyra
Staurastru
two hemi-cells
Ulothrix
unbranched filament
Volvox
zygospores