Expert: Walter Hintz - 5/4/2010

Question
1.what are two advantages of fungi which involve spores?
2.Green algae can't survive in deep water; red algae can. Why?
3.Other than viruses being smaller than bacteria, what are two other ways they are different?

Answer
1.They are saprophytes and recycle organic material
  They have economic value as food
2.The green algae absorbs the longer (Red end of the spectrum) wave lengths of light. The longer wave lengths do not penetrate as deeply while the violet and ultra-violet wave lengths do
3. They have a protein coat and they lack cell organelles