Question

Chlamydomonas and chlorella were considered as plants why?

Answer 1

Chlamydomonas and Chlorella:

1. Chlamydomonas is a member of Protista.
2. In earlier classification schemes it was placed under Plantae and sub category Algae along with chlorella and the main reason of it would be presence of cell wall in both.
3. But in the latest schemes of classification, as of Whittaker, hosted other features apart from gross morphology like cell structure and mainly phylogeny.
4. From which Chlamydomonas and Chlorella were placed in a kingdom especially meant for unicellular eukaryotes Protista.
5. But still for conveniance we study it under algae.