Life cycle of Ectocarpus and Fucus respectively are:

Life cycle of Ectocarpus and Fucus respectively are:
  1. Haplontic, Diplontic
  2. Diplontic, Haplodiplontic
  3. Haplodiplontic, Diplontic
  4. Haplodiplontic, Haplontic

Solution

Both Ectocarpus and Fucus belong to filamentous brown algae, which are found in the intertidal zones of rocky seashores almost throughout the world. Most algal genera are haplontic, some of them such as Ectocarpus, Polysiphonia, kelps are haplodiplontic, while Fucus is diplontic.

Asked in: NEET 2017

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