green algae

plural noun

any grass-green, chiefly freshwater algae of the phylum Chlorophyta, often growing on wet rocks, damp wood, or on the surface of stagnant water.

green algae

the algae of the phylum Chlorophyta, which possess the green pigment chlorophyll. The group includes sea lettuce and spirogyra

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First recorded in 1900–05

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The team found IsrB genes inside a type of green algae, which was able to cleave DNA easily in the lab.

Until then, she and other scientists had thought the sun provided all the energy green algae need.

For the new study, her team looked for these genes in other species of green algae.

Their favorite feeding ground was a fresh-water pond with a fringe of green algae about the sandy border.

Specially developed green algae have already been seeded all over the planet.

They were covered with green algae and fungus several years old.

Interestingly the flaky skin of the crown had blue-green algae growing on it.

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