Image of Kelp
Description:
This is a rapidly growing annual brown alga. Interestingly, the floats contain carbon monoxide--a chemical defense? Depth 15 m.
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Stramenopiles (heterokont)
- Phaeophyceae (brown algae)
- Laminariales (kelp)
- Laminariaceae
- Nereocystis
- Nereocystis luetkeana (Kelp)
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- 2005 California Academy of Sciences
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- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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