{"id":11659,"date":"2024-09-18T07:23:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T01:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11659"},"modified":"2025-03-30T03:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T22:26:21","slug":"what-are-seaweeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-are-seaweeds\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Seaweeds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Seaweeds:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Seaweed&#8221; is the common name for countless <strong>species of marine plants and algae<\/strong> that grow in the ocean as well as in rivers, lakes, and other water bodies.<\/li>\n<li>They range in colours from red, green, brown and black and also vary in size, from <strong>microscopic to large underwater forests.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Seaweeds are generally anchored to the <strong>sea bottom or other solid structures<\/strong> by rootlike \u201choldfasts,\u201d which perform the sole function of attachment and do not extract nutrients as do the roots of higher plants.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Many show a well-established zonation along the margins of the seas, where the depth of the water is 50 metres (about 165 feet) or less.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uses:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>A number of seaweed <strong>species are edible<\/strong>, and many are also of commercial importance to humans.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Some are used as fertilizers or as sources of <strong>polysaccharides.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>High amount of antioxidants present in seaweed <strong>protects the body<\/strong> from <strong>damages caused by freeradicals <\/strong>and protects cells from their impact.<\/li>\n<li>Animal studies have found that substances found in seaweed <strong>help increase<\/strong> the <strong>production of a protein<\/strong> that metabolises fat effectively.<\/li>\n<li>Research suggests that consuming seaweed can help in managing diabetes by balancing the sugar levels in the blood.<\/li>\n<li>Many seaweeds contain anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial agents.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They are effective binding agents (emulsifiers) in such commercial goods as toothpaste and fruit jelly, and popular softeners (emollients) in organic cosmetics and skin-care products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Emulsification?<\/h3>\n<p>Emulsification is the process of dispersing two or more immiscible liquids together to form a semistable mixture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Kochi\/cmfri-unit-designated-seaweed-research-centre-of-excellence\/article68648305.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CMFRI unit designated seaweed research centre of excellence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seaweed is the common name for countless species of marine plants and algae that grow in the ocean as well as in rivers, lakes, and other water bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}