Question

Acetabularia used in Hammerling's nucleocytoplamic experiments is

(a) unicellular fungus

(b) multicellular fungus

(c) unicellular uninucleate green alga

(d) unicellular multinucleate green alga

Answer 1

Correct option  (c) unicellular uninucleate green alga

Explanation:

Acetabularia is the largesl uninucleated green marine alga popuiarly called mermaids wine glass umbrella plant. It has a cap, stalk and rhizoidal base and nucleus lies in the base. Danish biologist J Hammerling (1983) by his grafting experiments involving exchange of nucleus in Acetabularia proved the role of nucleus in heredity, growth, morphology, differentiation and morphogenesrs.