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 During the course students will gain knowledge about basic components of photosynthesis
such as algal pigments, carotenoids, photosystems, oxygen evolving complex, and electron
carriers.

THEORY (45 Hours)

UNIT-I (9 Hours)

Criteria for algal classification (pigments, reserve food, flagella, chloroplasts, pyrenoids, eye
spots, endoplasmic reticular membrane etc.); Comparative account of important systems of
classification (Fritsch, Round, Chapman and Lee).

UNIT-II (9 Hours)
Salient features: Cell structure, thallus organization, reproduction and broad classification of i)
Cyanophyta ii) Xanthophyta iii) Bacillariophyta iv) Dinophyta.
UNIT-III (9 Hours)

Salient features: Cell structure, thallus organization, reproduction and broad classification of v)
Chlorophyta vi) Phaeophyta vii) Cryptophyta and viii) Rhodophyta.

UNIT-IV (9 Hours)
Diversity in algal habitats (terrestrial, freshwater and marine ). Thallus organization in algae
including evolutionary trends. Reproduction (vegetative, asexual and sexual), origin and evolution
of sex, life cycles. Current concepts and relationships of protochlorophycean algae.
UNIT-V (9 Hours)

Rhythms and bioluminescence in dinoflagellates. Economic importance of algae (algal
biofertilizers, algal blooms, algae as food and feed, uses in industries etc.) Algae in
Biotechnology.

PRACTICAL(30 Hours)

1. Algal collections from different habitats and their identification.
2. Morphology and reproductive stages of following genera:Cyanophyta: Chroococcus,
Microcystis, Oscillatoria, Lyngbya, Nostoc, Anabaena, Gloetrichia, Cylindrospermum,
Scytonema.
Chlorophyta: Volvox, Hydrodictyon, Chlorella, Pediastrum, Scenedesmus, Oedogonium,
Bulbochaete, Cosmarium, Closterium, Zygnema, Sphaeroplea, Cladophora, Pithophora,
Spirogyra, Caulerpa, Codium, Valonia, Halimeda, Acetabularia, Chara, Nitella, Coleochaete,
Dreparnaldia.
Xanthophyta: Vaucheria, Botrydium. Bacillariophyta: Pinnularia, Synedra, Navicula, Cyclotella.
Phaeophyta: Ectocarpus, Fucus, Laminaria, Dictyota, Desmortestia, Sporochnus,
Sargassum.Rhodophyta: Erythrotrichia, Porphyra, Nemalion, Batrachospermum, Corallina,
Gelidium, Polysiphonia

SUGGESTED READINGS:

1. Chapman, V.J. and D.J. Chapman. The Algae. ELBS and Macmillan, NY. 1977.
2. Lee, R. E., Phycology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008
3. VanDen Hock, C., Mann, D.G. and Jahns, H. M. Algae: An Introduction to Phycology,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.

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