Research topic: seaweed

seaweed name commonly used for the multicellular marine algae . Simpler forms, consisting of one cell (e.g., the diatom ) or of a few cells, are not generally called seaweeds; these tiny plants help to make up plankton. The more highly developed types of seaweed usually have a basal disk, called a holdfast, and a frond of varying length and shape, which often resembles a plant in having stemlike and leaflike parts. Types of Seaweed The simplest of the seaweeds are among the cyanobacteria , formerly called the blue-green algae, and green algae (division Chlorophyta ), found... Read more