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Trees and shrubs we deliver and plant...Call us at 215 651 8329 www.seedlingsrus.com http www.huntingrelics.com Phylum Euglenophyta have two flagella, no cell walls, mostly photosynthetic, live in fresh water. Phylum Pyrrophyta: also have two flagella, live in salt water, have cell walls, some are bioluminescent. Phylum Chrysophyta: store food as oil, most photosynthetic, yellow-brown pigments, aquatic, most unicellular. Phylum Bacillarophyta: diatoms, have glass cell walls, live in salt and fresh water, all photosynthetic, Phylum Chlorophyta: these are the typical green algae you find in the ocean or in a pond, both uni and multicellular, pigments similar to regular plants, store food as starch. Phylum Phaeophyta: these are brown algae, one you are familiar with is kelp, that’s right, kelp is not a plant at all, it is a protist, anyway, most phaeophytes live in salt water and are multicellular, they also contain the pigment fucoxanthin, which is also the stuff in gum. Phylum Rhodophyta: these are the red algae, these protists are multicellular and also live in salt water, these algae are amazing because of the depth at which they grow as a result of their special pigments called phycobilins which absorb blue light well. Fungus-like protists (note: these are a lot like fungus but they do not have chitin cell walls or centrioles) Phylum Acrasiomycota: these are the really nasty cellular slime molds you sometimes see on tree trunks, not much to say, nasty, slimy and form a ...
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