Newly discovered relatives of red algae may rewrite the evolutionary history of the Archaeplastida supergroup of eukaryotes, researchers reported July 17 in Nature. The protists Rhodelphis limneticus ...
Its only byproduct is water." Technically, algae mostly belong to a group of organisms called protists that aren't actually ...
And even though algae are related to plants, they're not really plants. They're "protists," which is a catch-all term for ...
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