Question

How are the following organisms called?
a) Algae that prepare their own food.
b) Fungi that either depend on living organisms or non-living things for their food.
c) An organism having both algal and fungal characters

Answer 1

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a).
Green algae can make their own food through a process of photosynthesis. They are at the beginning of the food chain and are known as primary producers. Chlamydomonas is a unicellular green alga.

b).
Fungi cannot make their food from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide as plants do, in the process known as photosynthesis. This is because they lack the green pigment known as chlorophyll, which plants use to capture light energy. So, like animals, they must obtain their food from other organisms.

c).
Euglena is an eukaryote from a different branch of the eukaryote family tree than both plants or animals, and the things it shares with either of these groups are simply the things that all eukaryotes share. (I believe they are genetically slightly closer to plants than animals in the cladogram, but don’t quote me on this)

Euglena have chloroplasts, but that does not necessarily make them plantlike.

Plant chloroplasts have 2 outer membranes, but euglena chloroplasts have three. This is a clue that their origin is different.

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