EVERYDAY SCIENCE

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Floridean Starch as a food reserve is present in-
A
Rhodophyceae
B
Chlorophyceae
C
Phaeophyceae
D
In all of above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Floridian starch is the characteristic photosynthetic reserve substance of red algae, occurring abundantly in certain basin-shaped grain cells. Most Rhodophyceae store starch outside the chloroplast, often as a cap over a bulging pyrenoid.

Detailed explanation-2: -C) In Rhodophyceae, floridean starch is the stored food and the major pigments are chlorophyll a, d and phycoerythrin.

Detailed explanation-3: -Red algae or members of the class Rhodophyceae has floridean starch as reserve food.

Detailed explanation-4: -Food reserve in rhodophyceae is Floridean starch.

Detailed explanation-5: -It is a kind of stockpiling glucan and tracked down in grains or granules in the cell’s cytoplasm. Floridean starch is tracked down in Rhodophyceae or red algae. Floridean starch was named after a class of red algae called Florideae (now it is termed Florideophyceae).

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