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Seaweed
Seaweed is a variety of marine algae. It is a common food source for both marine animals and humans. Seaweed is a very efficient water filter.
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What do animals in the ocean NOT get from seaweed?
Mostly above water where you can find seaweed is the botton of the ocean.
Is seaweed used to thicken icecream?
In some store-bought brands it is. Algin is an extract made of seaweed.
What kind of crabs eat seaweed or dead fish?
they eat seeweed and eat eat peopleat times if they are rabbit crabes with are not even real they eat seeweed and eat eat peopleat times if they are rabbit crabes with are not even real
Kelp is a brown algae or seaweed that grows in shallow oceans. Kelp forest support a large number of marine animals.
A few of the uses for kelp:
- Kelp ash, which is rich in iodine and alkali, is used in soap and glass production.
- Alginate is a kelp carbohydrate which is used as a thickener for ice cream, jelly, salad dressing and toothpaste as well as in dog food.
- Alginate can be used in dentistry for making impressions.
- Alginate can be used as food additive to reduce fat absorption leading to obesity.
- Some species of kelp are ingredients in Chinese, Japanese and Korean cooking to flavor broths and stews, garnish for rice, vegetable, primary ingredient in snacks.
- Kelp sheets are an edible decorative wrapping for rice and other foods.
- Kelp can be used in cooking or as pill to reduce intestinal gas.
- Because of the iodine content, it is a treatment for goiter (hypothyroidism).
- Large open-ocean kelp farms could be a source of renewable energy in the form of methane which is an easily attainable product of kelp decay.
- Folk medicine: expectorant, demulcent, emollient, diauretic, thyroid tonic, antirheumatic, anti-inflammatory, metabolic stimulant, soothes irritated throat and coughs, dissolves firm masses, normalizes enlarged prostate gland, and much more.
Is all sushi wrapped in seaweed?
Nope! Some kinds (like nigirizushi) is simply hand-formed rice with a topping draped over it.
How much seaweed do turtles eat a day?
a turtle should eat as much seafood as a turtle can but not so much seafood that the turtle is sick
No, it isn't! Seaweed is a type of algae. Algae lack the traits used to classify plants as terrestrial: cuticle, stomata, roots, vascular tissue, or leaves Plants use cellulose with lignin in cell walls (Algae lack a cell wall or have different components like agar or alginic acids mixed with cellulose.) Algae also have little sexual reproduction and do not have a multicellular embryo like the plants have.
All algae have sperm as the motile form in their life cycle. The majority of plants have lost this trait and use pollen not sperm.
Well no. Many times I'm at the beach in the water and I see a maroon or reddish type of seaweed floatig bye. It's just that most people assume seaweed is green.
Kelp pills are good for dieting, detoxifying your body, boosting your immune system, among other things. Although the 3 listed here are the main benefits.
There doesn't seem to be any Robert Frost poem about a girl with hair that resembles seaweed in the ocean or a ship with a broken mast. His two major ocean poems include "Neither Out Far Nor In Deep" and "Once by the Pacific."
Molokhia, or the edible leaf of the Corchorus genus of plants, is a versatile leaf - often underutilized in New World cuisine - which packs a powerful mineral punch
basically its not seaweed
hope that helps
What accounts for the similarity between seaweeds and plants?
Plants are the ancestors of seaweeds. Convergent evolution caused their similarity. Both evolved from brown algae. Seaweeds are the ancestors of plants. Seaweeds are aquatic plants.
How does seaweed protect itself from the environment?
Sea weed protecs by the ocean s water something in it does
How are seaweeds given scientific names?
Not sure if that's the right answer, but this is the scientific name for Seaweed
like a very wiggly piece of rubber that is slimy and wet
snails, crabs, halfmoon fish, opaleye fish, sea urchins, abalone, the list goes on.
