Batrachospermum Occurrence:- (1) Batrachospermum is fresh water alga. (2) It is found in clear, cool, and running streams. (3) Deepwater plants are dark violet or reddish in color. But the shallow-water species are olive green. (4) The intensity of light changes the color of pigments. (5) The thallus is attached to the substratum. Vegetative structure (1) The thallus of an adult plant is soft, thick, filamentous. (2) It is freely branched and gelatinous. (3) The central axis is made up of a single row of large cells. Whorls of branches of limited growth are developed on this axis. (4) These branches are filamentous and dichotomously arranged. (5) The main axis is corticated. It consists of a row of elongated cylindrical cells. (6) It is differentiated into nodes and internodes. (7) There are two types of branches that arise from the nodes: Branches of limited growth Branches of unlimited growth Batra
PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN HIGHER PLANTS Photosynthesis could be a purgative o – natural process, uses light-weight energy to synthesis organic compounds (sugar). Importance of photosynthesis: Primary supply of food • unleash O2 to atmosphere Photosynthesis Early Discoveries:- Joseph Priestly: Candle with bell glass and mouse experiment – He complete that air is important for the expansion of a plant. He discovered the very fact that plants restore atomic number 8 within the air. Priestly Experiment • Jan Ingenhousz: Experiment with hydrophytic plant in light-weight and dark – He complete that daylight is important for plant processes that purify the air. Jan Ingenhousz Experiment • Julius Von Sachs: Green components of plant build aldohexose and store as starch. • T.W. Engelmann: Spilt light-weight victimisation prism into seven colors (VIBGYOR) –