What are two human uses for algae?

If you like sushi, the algae known as nori is used in the wrapping. If you know a microbiologist the medium used for growing bacteria contains (or at least used to contain) agar agar from a type of red algae. read more

If you like sushi, the algae known as nori is used in the wrapping. If you know a microbiologist the medium used for growing bacteria contains (or at least used to contain) agar agar from a type of red algae. It has also been used in making ice cream. You can buy spirogyra as a dietary supplement in many vitamin stores. read more

Humans use algae as food, for production of useful compounds, as biofilters to remove nutrients and other pollutants from wastewaters, to assay water quality, as indicators of environmental change, in space technology, and as laboratory research systems. read more