Mannitol is the stored food in -

Mannitol is the stored food in -
  1. Gracillaria
  2. Chara
  3. Porphyra
  4. Fucus

Solution

Mannitol is a storage carbohydrate commonly found in brown algae. Fucus, a genus of brown algae, stores mannitol as a reserve food material. Other options like Gracilaria and Porphyra are red algae, which store floridean starch, and Chara (a green alga) stores starch, not mannitol. Thus, Fucus is the correct answer.

Asked in: NEET 2009 (Mains)

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