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ECOLOGY BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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Starch
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Protein
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Cellulose
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Reserve Food Material Of Algae is starch. Algae reserves starch, laminarin, mannitols, and Floridian starch as its food material, Reserve food material is the food that is used when there is a scarcity of food and this reserve food is then used to synthesize energy in the algal cells.
Detailed explanation-2: -As in land plants, the major carbohydrate storage product of the green algae is usually starch in the form of amylose or amylopectin. These starches are polysaccharides in which the monomer, or fundamental unit, is glucose.
Detailed explanation-3: -Another polymer of glucose called Starch is the main reserve food material in plants.
Detailed explanation-4: -Red algae (Rhodophyceae) are photosynthetic eukaryotes that accumulate starch granules outside of their plastids. The starch granules from red algae (floridean starch) show structural similarities with higher plant starch granules but lack amylose.
Detailed explanation-5: -The common reserve food material in cyanobacteria is cyanophycean starch.