Question

Why is it called Floridean Starch?

Answer 1

Floridean Starch:

1. Floridean starch is found in glaucophytes and red algae.
2. It goes about as an essential sink for fixed carbon from photosynthesis. Floridean starch is made out of connected glucose polymers.
3. It is a kind of stockpiling glucan and tracked down in grains or granules in the cell's cytoplasm.
4. Floridean starch is tracked down in Rhodophyceae or red algae.
5. Floridean starch was named after a class of red algae called Florideae (now it is termed Florideophyceae).