How will you differentiate between green-algae and brown algae? Give o

How will you differentiate between green-algae and brown algae? Give one example of each.

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S.NO	Green algae	Brown algae
(i)	It belongs to Chlorophyceae	It belongs to Phaeophyeae
(ii)	Chlorophyll a + b present, β-carotenoids are other pigments in algae.	Chlorophyll a + c and fucoxanthin present.
(iii)	Reserve food material is starch.	Reserve food material is Laminarian starch.
(iv)	Unicellular to multicellular and may be motile or flagellated.	Some are simple branched, filamentous forms while some are profusely branched.
(v)	Ex: Spirogyra, Chlamy domonas,	Ex: Fucus and Sargassum.