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BIORESOURCE PROGRAMME FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN

Seaweeds

by S Lakshmi Kanthan

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INTRODUCTION

Sea weeds are marine algae: saltwater-dwelling, simple organisms that fall into rather outdated general category of plants.
Most of them are the green (1200 species), brown(2000 sp)or red (6000 sp).
Most people know two groups of sea weeds:

1.wracks(members of brown algal order fucales such as fucus)
2.kelps(members of brown algal order laminariales such as laminaria.