Rhodophyta
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Description: Article by Jean-Marie Cavanihac on the red seaweeds and their complex reproductive cycles, with many fine images of the processes involved.
The name a little confusingly includes all the varieties of red algae (but some of them could be blue or even green, according to the proportion of phycocyanine or chlorophyll they contain). However, they all possess the pigment phycoerythrine which absorbs the blue spectrum radiation and reflects the reds. This adaptation allows them to use light to great depths in the sea. They stock this energy in a particular kind of starch (for their group) called floridean created from fifteen by-products of glucose.
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| Page title: | RODOPHYTAE |
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| Description: | Some photomicrographs taken by a hobbyist to show aspects of the complex reproductive cycles of an example of ceramium and polysiphonia. |
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