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red alga

n. Any marine alga of the phylum Rhodophyta, mostly reddish in colour

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The striations contain the chlorophyll, and the little spheres nestling against these striations contain the phycobilins, which make a red alga red.

The figure on page 61 shows the photosynthetic factory of a red alga.