-+Seaweed+Explorations

Seaweed is found almost everywhere when you go to the beach, at restaurats, farms, zoos etc... It is a microscopic, multicellular, benthic algae that floats around the ocean or on the shores of bays. Comes in colors such as red, brown, green and blue depending on if you consider it being algae. Doctors use seaweed as a medicine for some cases and is food to not only us but to certain fish, sea creatures, and others in the ocean everywhere. Not all algae are related, they come from diverse families. They are part of the paraphyletic group, and for the blue/green algae it is "seaweed" in some cases and it lacks defintion. Although they are not a human or fish, seaweed does have a structure to build up what they are. They sometimes do resemble the non arobeal plant, meaning animals do not live in these plants like they would in a tree. The thallus is the algae body which is a vegetative tissue that forms in non organism plants, then the lamina that is a flattened structure that is leaf like characteristic, the sorus is a spore cluster it is surrounded by the external layer in the red algae more so than the brown, blue or green, the focus is in the air bladder which helps assist the organs and float on the blade. Stripe is the stem that can be absent in certain plants. Haptera is the finger like structure which can extend to the holdfast and anchor the benthic substrate. Seaweed has two very specific dominate parts to live in. One being the absolute presence of sea water or brackish water. The second being the presence of the light to help drive photosynthesis. They need a firm point of something to attach on to as well. Seaweed is most commonly found on rocky shores than on the sand beaches or the shingle waters. As for food, seaweed usually is the food for all creatures in and out of the ocean such as food for coastal people in Asia. Seaweed is not very known around by people as far as what kinds there are what ones you can and can not eat, which ones you can use for medicine. I hope this was informational enough that you learned a lot about the wondrous world of the SEAWEED!!!!!