Animal diversity

... Student Name: Chan Yu Yan Maggie Student ID: 50920875 BCH 2001 Organisms and Environment Practical Plant Diversity No.1 The Algae Introduction: Algae are simple living organisms which are photosynthetic protists. They capture light energy and convert inorganic substances into simple sugars using the captured energy. Some of them are plant-liked while some of them are more animal-liked. Thus , they are defined as groups of eukaryotes that are classified in 12 phyla according to their morphological characteristics. Algae range from single-celled organisms to multi-cellular organisms.They range in size from 50 um in diameter, to giant one whose length may even exceed 60m.Algae are usually found in damp places or bodies of water , so they are common in terrestrial as well as aquatic environments. However, terrestrial algae are usually not easy to find and far more common in moist and tropical regions than dry ones as they do not have vascular tissues and

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