which unicellular organism is considered as plant as well as animal and why
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Euglena is a peculiar organism as it possesses both the characteristics of an animal as well as a plant.
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A Unicellular organism is considered as plant as well as animal is Euglena. Because it has characteristics of both plants and animals.
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- Like plants Euglena contain the chloroplast whereas like animal it lacks the cellwall.
- Euglena is a unicellular eukaryotic cell which comes under the genus Protista.
- Euglena is found in fresh and brackish water and in the moist soils.
- The main food sources of Euglena are small and microscopic organisms including green algae, amoebas and rotifers.
- Euglena has flagella which help in the movement.
- It doesn’t contain cell wall. The outer layer of Euglena is called Pellicle which is made of proteins.
- Euglena acts autotroph like plants when there is sun light and in the absence of sun light, it acts as heterotroph like animals.
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