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6 Algae: Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Biotechnology

FIGURE 1.3 Non-motile colony of FIGURE 1.4 Free-swimming colony of
Hydrurus foetidus. Synura uvella.

branched tube of Vaucheria (Heterokontophyta) (Figure 1.14) is an example of coenocyte or
apocyte, a single cell containing many nuclei.

PARENCHYMATOUS AND PSEUDOPARENCHYMATOUS ALGAE
These algae are mostly macroscopic with undifferentiated cells and originate from a meristem with
cell division in three dimensions. In the case of parenchymatous algae, cells of the primary filament

FIGURE 1.5 Motile coenobium of Volvox FIGURE 1.6 Non-motile coenobium of Pediastrum
aureus. simplex.