Kelp
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Kelps are large brown algae or seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales. There are about 30 genera. Despite its appearance and use of photosynthesis in chloroplasts, kelp is not a plant but a stra
Kelp In Freycinet Tasmania
Alaskan beach kelp
Costaria costata, five-ribbed kelp
A kelp forest
Brown algae
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Brown algae are a large group of photoautotrophic, multicellular SAR comprising the class Phaeophyceae. They include many seaweeds located in colder waters of the Northern Hemisphere. Brown algae are
Kelp
…Kelps are large brown algae or seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales. There are about 30 genera. Despite its appearance and use of photosynthesis in chloroplasts, kelp is…
Kelp forest Monterey
Two specimens of Laminaria hyperborea, each showing the rootlike holdfast at lower left, a divided blade at upper right, and a stemlike stipe connecting the blade to the holdfast.
Fucus vesiculosus produces numerous gas-filled pneumatocysts (air bladders) to increase buoyancy.
Growth in Dictyota dichotoma occurs at each frond tip, where new cells are produced.