Q. Which one possesses characters of both plants and animals ?
Solution:
- Euglena is a genus of single-celled flagellate eukaryotes.
- Species of Euglena are found in fresh and salt waters.
- They are often abundant in quiet inland waters where they may bloom in numbers sufficient to color the surface of ponds.
- Most species of Euglena have photosynthesizing chloroplasts within the body of the cell, which enable them to feed by autotrophy, like plants.
- However, they can also take nourishment heterotrophically, like animals.
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