Algae Archive

  Following types of life histories are found in algae: (a)      Haplontic Monophasic:  It is a primitive life cycle. In this case, vegetative plant body remains haploid. Gametes are produced by mitosis and fuse to form diploid zygote. First division in …

The flagella of the green alga Chlamydomonas have been used as a model of flagellar structure. Flagella structure has been highly conserved throughout evolution, images from Chlamydomonas are virtually indistinguishable from flagella (or cilia – a term for a short …