Sentence examples for the alga from inspiring English sources
noun
Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.
In 1953 she discovered in the alga Chlamydomonas a second genetic-transmitting system: not located on the chromosomes of the alga.
The alga cell is spherical and has a cup-shaped chloroplast.
The alga K. alvarezii invaded the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve in south India a decade after commercial cultivation began in nearby Panban.
The fungus appears to provide little more to the alga than a place to live while making the fungus's next meal.
Whether the fungus influences the release of carbohydrate by the alga is not known with certainty, but it is known that carbohydrate excretion by the alga decreases rapidly if it is separated from the fungus.
In many red algae (e.g., Palmaria), numerous adjacent filaments joined laterally create the gross morphological form of the alga.
The ciliate Paramecium bursaria forms longer-lasting symbiosis with Chlorella but must nevertheless acquire the alga with each new generation.
The alga can be grown in tanks and is of interest to researchers as a potential specialty food crop.
The Red Sea is supposed to have been named for the occasional blooms of the alga Trichodesmium erythraeum.
With temperature stress, the coral animal ejects the alga and the ecosystem undergoes "bleaching events": The brilliantly colorful reef essentially goes black and white as attendant diversity and productivity crash.
"formosana" refers to Taiwan, where the alga was collected.
