Multiple choice

Agarophytes are agar-yielding red algae. This agar used in medicines, ice creams but chiefly in culture medium to make them semisolid, is obtained from cell wall of red algae like:

  1. Gelidium and pterocladia

  2. Gracilaria and chondrus

  3. Both (1) and (2)

  4. None of these

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Explanation

Agarophytes are agar yielding red algae. Gelidium, Ppterocladia, Gracilaria and chondrus are species of red algae that yield agar.