1. Lacking elasticity; unyielding or unadaptable. See Synonyms at stiff. 2. Economics Of, relating to, or being a good for which changes in price have little effect on the quantity demanded or supplied: the inelastic demand for cigarettes.
The classification of algae is complex and somewhat controversial, especially concerning. the blue-green algae (Cyanobacteria), which are sometimes known as blue-green. bacteria or Cyanophyta and sometimes included in the Chlorophyta. These topics are. not covered in detail this document.
These, along with the cyanobacteria (often misleadingly called blue-green algae), form the phytoplankton of aquatic ecosystems . Others, including all brown algae (Phaeophyta), most red algae (Rhodophyta), and many green algae are multicellular. The large marine forms of these phyla are usually called seaweeds. Plants are thought to have evolved from a class of freshwater green algae called the charophytes. Two particular groups of charophyte, the Coleochaetales and the Charales, resemble the earliest land plants (bryophytes) in a variety of ways, including the structure of their chloroplasts and sperm cells, and the way their cells divide during mitosis .