Multiple choice

Fucosterol is a sterol of many brown algae and it is used for manufacture of many sexual hormones. Besides brown algae, in which red alga is it found?

  1. Rhodymenia palmata

  2. Cladophora sauteri

  3. Porphyra liciniata

  4. Desmarestia

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Explanation

Rhodymenia palmata is a red alga producing fucosterol. Fucosterol is the base material for the manufacture of sexual hormones and steroid synthesis.