How to Use alga in a Sentence

alga

noun

• The secret to photosynthesis passed to the alga and all its heirs.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• In Florida and Texas, red tides are caused by an alga called Karenia brevis.
  — Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 13 July 2019
• Namely, a safe place to hide from predators and a source of food in the form of small, single-celled alga that grow on red seaweed plants, reports Erik Stokstad for Science.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2022
• Near the back, leaning on the vase, is an alga from an herbarium of strange, incredible shapes, which could have been invented by Max Ernst.
  — Louis Benech, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2020
• In high tide, when less light reaches the alga, the crystals may capture some of the sunlight and pass it on to the surrounding chloroplasts for photosynthesis.
  — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 13 Apr. 2018
• Once the water temperature returns to normal, any polyps that haven’t starved to death will host another alga.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 8 Dec. 2020
• Yet here in this massive pool swirls more than a million liters of Nannochloropsis, a salt-loving alga that flourishes on the brackish water pumped from below.
  — Amy Nordrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2018
• And seaweed is really just an extremely large alga—in fact, seaweeds are also called macroalgae.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2020
• By looking at frozen samples under an electron microscope, scientists were able to zero in on nanostructures in the alga’s cells that are about 1000 times smaller than a human hair is thick.
  — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 13 Apr. 2018
• The lagoons are home to a variety of microorganisms, including Dunaliella salina, an alga responsible for the red hue.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021
• The consequent flood of data is helping researchers determine which genes are behind a coral’s, an alga’s or a bacterium’s fragility or resilience.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• This alga is a critical food source for brine shrimp and other salt-tolerant species, which attract migratory shorebirds.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021
• For example, since the 1960s, scientists have shown that a type of alga shows a daily cycle in its photosynthesis, even without a nucleus.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2012
• This is the first recorded example of an alga practicing an aquatic equivalent to pollination.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 28 July 2022
• Yet the verdant spheres are a different organism altogether: Chlorella, an alga that occasionally takes refuge within the confines of the paramecium’s cushy cell membrane.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 June 2021
• In return, the bacterium processes nitrogen gas into ammonium, which the alga needs.
  — Ashley P. Taylor, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2012
• Studies of Volvox, an alga that forms beautiful, flagellated green balls, shows that multicellular organisms also found new ways to use existing functions.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 28 June 2018
• This distinctive form of the freshwater alga Aegagropila linnaei is exceedingly rare.
  — National Geographic, 8 Sep. 2016
• Lichens are actually two organisms working together: a fungus and either alga or cyanobacterium.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2022
• This particular photograph also documents the incremental nature of the scientific method: DNA analysis has shown that people mistakenly lumped at least three alga species under the name Halymenia latifolia since that label was created.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024