The vegetative body of algae is called Thallus. The range varies from being relatively simple in case of unicellular forms to being extremely complex in case of multicellular forms.
The list of different algae and their thallus structure are listed in the table below:
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Structure of Thallus
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Examples
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Filamentous
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Spirotaenia, Nostoc, Anabaena
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Unicellular
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Diatoms, Cryptomonas
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Colonial
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Gonium, Volvox
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Blade-like
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Monostroma
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Tubular
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Stigeoclonium
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