Chlorophyta
Sign in to saveChlorophyta or chlorophytes is a major division of green algae, and is sister taxon to the other major division Charophyta (a paraphyletic group of predominantly freshwater green algae, which form the monophyletic clade Streptophyta after including all land plants) as well as the proposed basal clade Prasinodermophyta, together with whom they form the major primary algae clade Viridiplantae (Plantae sensu stricto).
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Chlorophyta is a major group of green algae that represents one of the primary branches of plant life on Earth. These organisms are important because they form part of the foundational algal diversity in aquatic ecosystems and are closely related to the evolutionary lineage that eventually led to all land plants.
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- Description
- Chloroplasts
- Flagellar apparatus
- Metabolism
- Reproduction and life cycle
- Ecology
- Free-living
- Symbionts
- Systematics
- Taxonomic history
- Classification
- Evolution
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- Model organisms
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Chlorophyta or chlorophytes is a major division of green algae, and is sister taxon to the other major division Charophyta (a paraphyletic group of predominantly freshwater green algae, which form the monophyletic clade Streptophyta after including all land plants) as well as the proposed basal clade Prasinodermophyta, together with whom they form the major primary algae clade Viridiplantae (Plantae sensu stricto).
== Description == Chlorophytes are eukaryotic organisms composed of cells with a variety of coverings or walls, and usually a single green chloroplast in each cell. They are structurally diverse: most groups of chlorophytes are unicellular, such as the earliest-diverging prasinophytes, but in two major classes (Chlorophyceae and Ulvophyceae) there is an evolutionary trend toward various types of complex colonies and even multicellularity.