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Flies of the genus Coelopa lay their eggs onto these organisms found decomposing at wrack zones. It’s not diatoms, but non-photochemical quenching in one clade of these organisms is facilitated by allenic pigments called fucoxanthins. The thallus of these organisms comprises the stipe and lamina, which are connected to gas-filled (*) pneumatocysts [new-MAT-uh-sists]. Carrageenans synthesized by these organisms are harvested for use as food thickeners. Eel migration is speculated to be propagated by free-floating kinds of these (-5[1])organisms named after the Sargasso (10[1])Sea. Sea otters are a keystone (10[1])species of these organisms’ namesake ecosystems. For 10 points, name these plant-like algal organisms that form namesake underwater “forests.” (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: seaweed [or kelp or kelp forests or kelp beds until stated; accept macroalgae; accept gulfweed; accept Caulerpa or Fucus or Sargassum or Laminaria or Postelsia or Ulva or Asparagopsis or Porphyra or Durvillaea or Codium or Alaria or Pyropia or Monostroma or Gracilaria or Macrocystis or Delisia or Eucheuma or Kappaphycus; accept brown algae or Phaeophycaea; prompt on red algae or Rhodophyta; prompt on green algae or Chlorophyta or chlorophytes; accept algae before “Flies” is read and prompt on algae after; reject “seagrasses” or“eelgrasses”]
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