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Rhodophyta


Rhodophyta, the Red Algae
Red algae have large amounts of the red pigment phycoerythrin, range from unicellular to multicellular, sometimes more than one meter in length.
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Rhodophyta The division of protists commonly called the red algae.
rhodopsin Light-sensitive substance that occurs in the rods of the retina; visual purple.
rhombogen Stage in the life cycle of a dicyemid mesozoan.
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Rhodophyta
members of the Thallophyta division Rhodophyta, in which the chlorophyll is masked by phytocoerythrin. Rhodophytes vary from filamentous forms to those with an extensive thallus and have non-motile gametes.
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Phycobilins are water-soluble pigments, and are therefore found in the cytoplasm, or in the stroma of the chloroplast. They occur only in Cyanobacteria and Rhodophyta.
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