View source for Chlorophyceae

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CHLOROPHYCEAE

A large and important group of fresh-water, or rarely marine, algae. Plant body unicellular, filamentous, or even thalloid: the cells contain chloroplastids and produce starch: reproduction sometimes vegetative, but also by asexual zoospores; sexual reproduction consists of the fusion of two zoospore-like gametes, or the fusion of one such gamete and a specialized non-motile egg. The latter condition is characteristic of the higher forms in nearly all the sub-groups of the Chlorophyceae. The plant body in the Order Siphonales is peculiar in that it consists of a continuous tube without cross-walls. Some common genera in this class are Volyox, Chlamydomonas, Pandorina, Protococcus, Pediastrum, Scenedesmus, Hydrodictyon (Water-net), Ulothrix, Ulva (Sea-lettuce), Oedogonium, Cladophora, Caulerpa, and Vaucheria.
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:''More information about this class can be found on the [[Thallophyta|division page]].''