The General Illustration Of Seaweed
A. The Sense of Seaweed
Seaweed is kind of algae that has big measurement and has many shape and color of various kind and also it is one field commodity of sea. That available over flow in Indonesia ocean. Which one of many kinds of seaweed that profitable as food and medicine. That is sargassum crassifolium.
General kind of seaweed that species of sargassum crassifolium is browm colored cause the domination pigment fikosantin covered the clorofil pigment until the algae seen as brown. Thallus branching saragassum crassifolium molded formation two-two not be arranged that contrast at especially length side thallus that called (pinnate alternate). Leaf at algae is oval- shaped with big size about 40 mm and wide about 10 mm. It grow wider and serrated with slippery surface. It has thallus formed flat with leafy branches alternately resemble to land plant. in the surah Al- an‘am / 6 : 141
وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنشَأَ جَنَّٰتٍ مَّعْرُوشَٰتٍ وَغَيْرَ مَعْرُوشَٰتٍ وَٱلنَّخْلَ وَٱلزَّرْعَ مُخْتَلِفًا أُكُلُهُ وَٱلزَّيْتُونَ وَٱلرُّمَّانَ مُتَشَٰبِهًا وَغَيْرَ مُتَشَٰبِهٍ ۚ كُلُوا۟ مِن ثَمَرِهِۦٓ إِذَآ أَثْمَرَ وَءَاتُوا۟ حَقَّهُ يَوْمَ حَصَادِهِۦ ۖ وَلَا تُسْرِفُوٓا۟ ۚ إِنَّهۥ لَا يُحِبُّ ٱلْمُسْرِفِينَ
The meaning is :
He it is Who produceth gardens trellised and untrellised, and the date-palm, and crops of divers flavour, and the olive and the pomegranate, like and unlike. Eat ye of the fruit thereof when it fruiteth, and pay the due thereof upon the harvest day, and be not prodigal. Lo! Allah loveth not the prodigals.
In edge shave serrated has bubble had called vesicle. This bubble air functions as defend leaf in order to surface of the water. Diameter bubble from about 15 mm with flat and wing size. Reproduction sargassu crassifolium consist to two wind, the first reproduction is vegetative and secondly is generative. The vegetative reproduction is doing by fragmention, In a generative manner is multiply individual pass through to antheridia and oogenia. In depth womb compound active among others in amino sour, mineral, alginate, and also extra positive contained the flavonoid, triterpenoid, and saponin.
Seaweed was used as food or medicines especially in Japan, China, Europe or America country. Among others as nori hombu, pudding or in other plateful forms like soup, sauce and in unripe form as vegetable. Beside uses as food, seaweed also can uses as align at earning, agar, carrageena fullcream, fertilizer, cattle eating and yodium, some fickle harvest of seaweed that valuable economical, they are:
- Algiant, used in store industrialization drag as emulsifier, stabilizer, suspended agent in tablet production and capsule.
- Cosmetic, used to pulverizer in cream production, lotion and salve.
- Food , used as stabilizer enulsifer, thickener, additive, or addition material in textile industrialization.
- Agar, much using in industrialization/ sector : paper, ceramics, photography and excetera.
- Microbiologiacal used to culture media.
- Cultivation.
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B. The Kinds of Seaweed
kinds of seaweed the author will explain, they are :
1. Gelidium Sp
Seaweed of this kind is part of species rhodophtya (red seaweed). Red color in seaweed of pigment fikoeritrin, It has long about 20 cm and wide about 1,5 mm.
2. Gracilaria Verrucosa
Seaweed of this kind from is resemble to the root, leaf stick of fruit. Its shape characteristic is thin to cylinder from that is not branching uniform.
3. Eucheuma Spinosum
Seaweed of this kind is species of rhodopyta (red seaweed) is cylinder form. Point branch spear and also grow up protuberance curved soft body surface is slippery and brown, red, purple or green yellow colored.
4. Eucheuma Cottonii
This seaweed has subdivisions thallus with grafing isn’t arrange, cylinder or flat form. Sharp poit or blunt with brown or green yellow colored. It has slippery surface with green color and also grew or red.
5. Acanthopora Spicifera
This seaweed has cylinder thallus erect, free branching short thorn surrounding area. Its body brown yellowish colored. The cultivation is rare cause many useful to manner become food only.
6. Chondrococcus Hernemannii
It has refined surface, formed small clump, than leafy with mutual pile, red purple or war colored and moor.
7. Ulfa Lactuca
It has typical thallus cop branching more or less is identical, consist of two lining sword cell.
8. Hypnea Sp
It has straight thallus, weak branching, brown or light green colored and soft possessing. It has benefit to basic industrialization cloth.
9. Sargassum Sp
It has cylinder flat and slippery thallus and top circle stalk with moderate rough. Leaf is wide, oval or like a sword and brown colored.
10. Turbinaria Sp
Character of this seaweed is soft and little rought or stiff, like a funnel with jagged side and arch in the middle.
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C. The Classification and Characteristic of Seaweed
Classification of Seaweed:
- Kingdom : Plantae
- Class : Rhodophyta
- Ordo : Gigartinales
- Family : Solieriaceae
- Genus : Eucheuma
- Spesies : Eucheuma Cottonii
- Division : Rhodophyceae
1. Cyanphyta Division (blue algae)
It lives in most place, fresh water and lives in temperature about 0-75 from some clans that free life, epifit, epizoik, endofit and clings waters bottom, also simbiosis. Body’s structure is uniseluler and photosynthesis to gets flour and sianofisin (like protein). in the al-Qur’an surah al-fatir :12
وَمَا يَسْتَوِى ٱلْبَحْرَانِ هَٰذَا عَذْبٌ فُرَاتٌ سَآئِغٌ شَرَابُهُۥ وَهَٰذَا مِلْحٌ أُجَاجٌ ۖ وَمِن كُلٍّ تَأْكُلُونَ لَحْمًا طَرِيًّا وَتَسْتَخْرِجُونَ حِلْيَةً تَلْبَسُونَهَا ۖ وَتَرَى ٱلْفُلْكَ فِيهِ مَوَاخِرَ لِتَبْتَغُوا۟ مِن فَضْلِهِۦ وَلَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ
The meaning is :
And the two seas are not alike: this, fresh, sweet, good to drink, this (other) bitter, salt. And from them both ye eat fresh meat and derive the ornament that ye wear. And thou seest the ship cleaving them with its prow that ye may seek of His bounty, and that haply ye may give thanks.
2. Chlorophyta Division (green algae)
Divided into two species, they are :
(1) Chlorophyceae
Have doing photosyinthesis process to get amilum and grease proliferated to sporik and gemetes
(2) Charophyceae (coral algae)
Body’s structure is uniseluler and poliseluler. Proliferated to vegetative and gametes.
3. Euglenophyta Division
Live as zooplankton and endozoik, proliferated to longitudinal cleared.
4. Phyrophyta Division (fire algae)
Its revolve movememt, lives in sea and freshwater has clorofil pigmentation, are “a” and “c”
5. Chrysopyta Division (golden algae)
Divided into three species they are :
(1) Xanthophyceae
Yellowish dominant colored with character life in adhere and free
(2) Chrysophyceae (golden algae)
(3) Bacillariophyceae (rustle or diatome algae)
6. Phaeophyta Division (brown algae)
Body’s structure is multiseluler and divided into leaf, stalk,and bus as root. Its food reserve similar to manitol (alcohol chem) and laminarin (carbohydrate chem)
7. Rhodophyta (red algae)
Body’s structure is multiseluler and uniseluler, with food reserve similar to florida flour.
Characteristic of Seaweed
Seaweed grow in all hydrofis until to order on sunshine depth to achieve it. Seaweed lives as fitobento with adhere it self mod subrat, sand and excetera.
Proliferation into two kinds, are: generative between male gemetes and female gametes, vegetative, conjugative and response. The suitable salinity waters to this clan is about 15-34 ppt. Seaweed needs strong activation on of water and adhere to hard subtract, cause inventing in hindian ocean state.
Which one of charming seaweed’s character is haven’t spora or swimming gametes with tremble hair or whipping.