does algae soak up CO2?

Answer 1

yes, the same way all plants which use Photosystenis do.

Answer 2

Anything that does photosynthesis will absorb carbon dioxide.. this will be algae, blue green bacteria, and plants.

If its in the water, carbon dioxide has to be dissolved as carbonic acid first.

By the way, they will only remove carbon dioxide while it is during photosynthesis. If there is no light, it will not.

And algae are not plants. Most of what people think of as algae-- stuff that turn water green, sea weed, green furry things on rocks.. are protists (so algae are photisynthetic protists). Blue-green bacteria also used be called algae, but these are bacteria.

Things that have roots, stems, leaves, and sometimes flowers are aquatic plants. These include things people put in fish tanks (some are mosses, some are ferns, some are angiosperms)

Answer 3

Yup. It turns it into oxygen just like all the other plants out there. Actually, a certain type of algae has the most chloroplast pigment out of all the plants in the world. This is the stuff inside that absorbs the energy of the sun to convert water and co2 in glucose and oxygen.

Answer 4

I suppose in a way it might. Because algae is one of the plants that take up the most carbon and make the most oxygen in the world. It is what astronauts use to make oxygen in shuttles. If it takes this much carbon then it would probably take the carbon out of CO2 and leave the oxygen. I do not know quite how effective it would be though.

Answer 5

Yes it does, algae is green and therefore works the same way as other green plants, CO2 in and O2 out.

Answer 6

Yes, but if you have enough plants then they will take the other nutrients from the water and starve the algae.

Answer 7

Some do, especally in the oceans, 75% so I`ve heard.

Answer 8

it does doesn't it?