What are the characteristics of a protocist?

Answer 1

Simple eukaryotic organisms, that may be autotrophic or heterotrophic. They are defined by exclusion: its members are neither animals, plants, fungi nor prokaryotes. And they may be: Unicellular Filamentous (chains of cells, joined end to end) Colonial (balls of cells) Thalloid (sheets of cells e.g. seaweed fronds) Simple eukaryotic organisms, that may be autotrophic or heterotrophic. They are defined by exclusion: its members are neither animals, plants, fungi nor prokaryotes. And they may be: Unicellular Filamentous (chains of cells, joined end to end) Colonial (balls of cells) Thalloid (sheets of cells e.g. seaweed fronds)