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What are the plant-like protists?

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A plant like protist is a Eukaryotic organism that lives in a wet or moist environment. It has a cell wall and contains a green pigment, chlorophyll. Chloropyll helps the plant like protist produce its own food through photosynthesis. Most plant like protists are autotrophs, but some are partly heterotrophs. They are known as algae. Examples of plant like protists are dinoflagellates, euglenoids, diatoms, red algae, brown algae, and green algae.

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Algae, the plant-like protists They include many single-celled organisms that are also considered protozoa, such as Euglena, which many believe have acquired chloroplasts through secondary endosymbiosis. Others are non-motile, and some (called seaweeds) are truly multicellular, including members of the following groups: Chlorophytes green algae, are related to higher plants e.g., Ulva Rhodophytes red algae e.g., Porphyra Heterokontophytes brown algae, diatoms, etc. e.g., Macrocystis The green and red algae, along with a small group called the glaucophytes, appear to be close relatives of other plants, and so some authors treat them as Plantae despite their simple organization. Most other types of algae, however, developed separately. They include the haptophytes, cryptomonads, dinoflagellates, euglenids, and chlorarachniophytes, all of which have also been considered protozoans. Note some protozoa host endosymbiotic algae, as in Paramecium bursaria or radiolarians, that provide them with energy but are not integrated into the cell.

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Volvox and spirogyra --> Someone else wrote this, not the answer to your question. These are green algae, from phylum chlorophyta. Volvox are small, green circular algae, spirogyra, are long green strand-like algae. Plant like protsists and algae are similar. Now, all plant like protists are called: Protophyta. While animal like protists are Ptotozoa. (There are also fungus-like protists :) ).

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They are fungus-hiles in their nutrit and in that they absorb nutrients from their environment.

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Algea.

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Do all plantlike protists have chloroplasts?

Plantlike protists are algae.They have chloroplast organells.


What does algae include?

It is plantlike, which means that protists are plantlike.


Why are so many other living things dependent on plantlike protists?

Because these plantlike protists make the basis of the food web.


Why is sunlight imporatnt to plantlike protists?

Sunlight is the source of the protists energy.


What class is algae in?

algae are plantlike protists


Protists that have plantlike characteristics are called?

algae


What type of pigment do all plantlike protists contain?

chlorophyll


Why do plant like protists not have leaves roots stems?

Plantlike protists can move around and still photosynthesize.


What do all plantlike protists have in common?

They are all autotrophs, therefore they can do photosynthesis.


What products are made from a plantlike protists?

what are products of plant like protist


What protists are plantlike?

Unicellular Algae such as Spirogyra, Euglena, Diatoms.


What are plantlike protists called?

Commonly called ALGAE :D