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What is the stored food of brown algae?


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Brown algae:

  1. Brown algae are eukaryotic algae with a food reserve in the form of laminarin and a lot of chlorophyll a, chlorophyll c, fucoxanthin, and phycocolloids.
  2. Brown algae have chlorophyll a, chlorophyll c, and carotenoids as photosynthetic pigments.
  3. The brown color of algae is caused by a high concentration of xanthophyll called Fucoxanthin.

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