Aqueous extraction of cystocarpic, tetrasporic, and vegetative individuals of Mazzaella laminariodes collected in the Magellan Ecoregion, Southern Chile, afforded sulfated galactans. Analysis by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and by 1 H and 13 C NMR spectroscopy indicated that purified extracts from cystocarpic (CP) and vegetative individuals (VP) were mixtures of κ/ι-type carrageenans and their precursors μ-and ν-carrageenans, whereas the aqueous extract from tetrasporic individuals was a λ-type carrageenan. Alkaline treatment of CP and VP polysaccharides produced modified polysaccharides with lower content of sulfate groups and with a concomitant increase of 3,6-anhydrogalactose content; analysis by 2D 1 H and 13 C NMR indicated the presence of hybrid κ-ι-carrageenans. Copolymerization of alkalitreated CP carrageenan with acrylamide was achieved by using ceric ammonium nitrate as the initiator; studies by NMR spectroscopy indicated grafting of polyacrylamide at position C-6 of β-galactopyranosyl residues. Reaction of modified CP with acrylamide assisted by microwave irradiation in the presence of ammonium persulfate afforded a copolymer grafted at position C-2 of β-galactopyranosyl residues.