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The Reserve Food Material Of Algae is:


A

Fat

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Starch

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sugar

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Glycogen

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Solution

The correct option is B

Starch


The correct option is option B.
The explanation for the correct option:

  1. The Reserve Food Material Of Algae is starch.
  2. Algae reserves starch, laminarin, mannitols, and Floridian starch as its food material,
  3. 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.
  4. Starch (polysaccharide) is a polymer of D-glucopyranose units linked together by alpha-1,4-glycosidic linkages. It consists of a mixture of amylopectin and amylose in a 1:4 ratio.

Final Answer: The Reserve food material of algae is Starch.


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