Sex and the Single Red Alga!

It’s not so much the sex; it’s the loss of their crusty barriers that really matters.

Rich Sobel
ILLUMINATION-Curated
10 min readJan 17

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Photo by Ivan Bachev on Wikimedia Commons

Ok, if you’re like me, you probably don’t know a whole lot about the organisms we call algae.

If you have pet fish, you know that algae are not a good thing to have growing in your tank. And those guys are usually green algae.

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Rich Sobel
ILLUMINATION-Curated

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