Thursday 5-2 Algae (Volvox)

Volvox is a type of algae. This type of algae forms spherical colonies. They can have as many as 50,000 cells. Volvox has a fishy odor and has daughter cells. It is not good to have a lot of volvox in the water. Over a long period of time, volvox has had many adaptations. Over a course of 35 million years, there have been 45 different species of volvoxs, depending on where they are located and what types of waters they are in.