Green algae is not a plant. Green algae lack roots, stems and leaves, and other higher plants also lack organizational structure. It was once classified as a plant, but with the continuous development of taxonomy, green algae has a new ownership.
What plant is green algae?
Green algae is not a plant, but a single-celled organism. Typical green algae cells may or may not move. There is a gap in the middle. Pigment exists in plastids, which have various shapes. The cell wall is composed of cellulose and pectin, and food is mainly stored in the protein core.
Appearance and characteristics of green algae
Green algae is a plant that grows in water. There are many kinds, about 6700 kinds. Green algae plants have cell walls, mitochondria, vacuoles, nuclei and chloroplasts. Plastids vary from species to species and are not fixed.
Green algae are mostly distributed in fresh water, some in seawater and some in damp and cool places on land. There are many ways to reproduce green algae, including sexual reproduction, gamete fusion, cross-pollination and egg reproduction. Asexual reproduction includes division, colonization, sporulation and immobile spore production. Green algae has high economic value and wide application.