Rohith Kaliyur Properties of Algae Block 3 Individual Research Process 3

Several major milestones were reached. First, I completed my respective publication. This publication was soaking an enormous amount of my time, and I am happy to have finally completed it. Although I am not 100% thorough with all of the expressed topics, I feel that this novel has educated me enough to allow me to adequately conduct personal research regarding a substantial topic related to algae to hopefully advance the field. Second, I narrowed down my choices as to which species of algae to use, the green algae. This is because this type of algae is vastly abundant in the environment I am in, and will thus be easy to either obtain or purchase.

Here are a few vital facts about this interesting chlorophycae:

1)They are abundant in fresh water.

2)They can occur as single cells or colonies.

3)Their main storage compound is starch, although oils can be produced under certain conditions.

I believe this algae is the evolutonary progenitor of modern plants.

I have decided to elaborate on green algae anatomy, here is a pictorial image that serves as a very basic model.

Green Algae Anatomy

In condensed form algae is similar to numerous prokaryotic organisms, as it has the ability to be unicellular. This is what is displayed in the diagram, however, in reality the anatomy varies between prokaryotic and eukaryotic algae. Although this seemingly makes algae tougher to truly understand, the overall pattern gives rise to certain similarities that allow for better exploration of its properties.

There is one more aspect I would like to touch on in this blog entry. Numerous publications and sources that I have read have impacted algal properties in many different ways to more efficient biofuels. Although this seems like a wise allocation of resources for major organizations and universities, I will not indulge in this as I simply do not have the available resources to do so. For the most part I must begin to focus an enormous amount of this project remaining towards closing out my research and beginning to design my own procedures for testing for certain properties of algae.