Your class takes a field trip to a freshwater stream, where you collect the organism shown microscopically here.

(a) What is the genus name of this organism?
(b) Identify and give the function of the structure within the chloroplast at the end of the leader (line).


(a) What is the genus name of this organism? Spirogyra
(b) Identify and give the function of the structure within the chloroplast at the end of the leader (line). Pyrenoid, functions in starch synthesis.

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