PHAEOPHYTA

Characteristics

Brownish colour

Macroscopic

multicellular

Chlorophyl a and c

Cell wall( celulose)

Cell wall( celulose)

Ecology

Kelp forest

The Sargasso sea

Fucoid communities

Morphology

Largest photosynthetic organism

No unicellular or colonial

gas-filled floatation bladders

live in the intertidal zone

Life Cycle

have a sexual alternation of generations