Animal-like protists are autotrophic, while plant-like protists are heterotrophic.
Animal-like protists are autotrophic, while plant-like protists are heterotrophic.
animal-like groups
Heterotrophs
Animal-like protists are heterotrophic, meaning they obtain their nutrition by ingesting organic matter or other organisms. They can be categorized as parasitic, saprophytic, or predatory depending on how they obtain their food.
Crickets are detrivores. These are animals that eat dead animal or plant matter. These are invertebrate like snails, grubs, crickets and mites.
protists can be either one. some protists resemble animals, heterotrophic, while some resemble plants, photosynthic.
The best way to tell the difference between plants and plant-like protists is that plant cells are part of a bigger structure, whereas plant-like protists are mostlyunicellular.Animal-like protists are even more different- for example, they are heterotrophs, so they can't make their food and don't have chloroplasts.
No, I believe not. There are protists that are producers (autotrophs). This branch of protists are called Algae. However, the branch that you are talking about is Protozoans, and they are heterotrophic, so they need to take food in from the environment. So no, heterotrophs are not producers, so animal-like protists are not producers.
euglenoids
Examples of one-celled animal-like protists include amoebas, paramecia, and trypanosomes. These protists are eukaryotic organisms that possess animal-like characteristics such as mobility and heterotrophic feeding behavior. They can be found in various aquatic environments and play important roles in nutrient cycling and food chains.
Protista, with its peculiar nature, has varieties of ways to gain nutrition. Some like algae and planktons are autotrophic, while animal-like protists such as paramecium and stentor are heterotrophic. Still others are classified as being mixotrophic, which means that they are both capable of obtaining food from others and from inorganic sources.