Red algae are abundant in marine habitats but relatively rare in freshwaters.
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10 Facts About Red algae
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Red algae store sugars as floridean starch, which is a type of starch that consists of highly branched amylopectin without amylose, as food reserves outside their plastids.
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The coralline Red algae, which secrete calcium carbonate and play a major role in building coral reefs, belong here.
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The SCRP clade are microRed algae, consisting of both unicellular forms and multicellular microscopic filaments and blades.
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Red algae do not have flagella and centrioles during their entire life cycle.
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Two kinds of fossils resembling red algae were found sometime between 2006 and 2011 in well-preserved sedimentary rocks in Chitrakoot, central India.
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The presumed red algae lie embedded in fossil mats of cyanobacteria, called stromatolites, in 1.
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Thallophytes resembling coralline red algae are known from the late Proterozoic Doushantuo formation.
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Red algae have a long history of use as a source of nutritional, functional food ingredients and pharmaceutical substances.
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Dulse is one of the most consumed red algae and is a source of iodine, protein, magnesium and calcium.
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