NEET BIOLOGY UNIT14 PLANT KINGDOM All the multicellular eukaryotic plants are placed in Kingdom-Plantae.They are autotrophic i.e. they manufacture their food by photosynthesis. ALGAE Term "Algae" was given by Linnaeus. Phycology - Study of algae. Father of Phycology - Fristch Book "Structure & Reproduction of algae" Father of Indian phycology - M.O.P. Iyengar NATURE (1) Algae are found in both fresh and marine water. (2) Algae are found in many forms like filamentous, colonial. (3) Algae are surrounded by mucilagenous sheath and below the sheath cell wall is present which is made up of cellulose and pectin but mainly made up of cellulose, galactans, mannans and mineral like calcium carbonate. (4) On the basis of structure, algae are thalloid i.e. plant body is not differentiated into root, stem and leaves. Tissue system is also absent in algae. (5) On the basis of nutrition, algae are photoautotrophic. They have chloroplast in which p...
