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How do protists get their food?

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a

Both Photosynthesizers and Heterotrophs

b

Chemosynthesizers

c

Heterotrophs

d

Photosynthesizers

answer is D.

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  • Protists have characters of both plants and animals as they use autotrophic and heterotrophic nutrition both.
  •  Hence, they are mixotrophs.
  •  In the presence of light, they perform photosynthesis by trapping the sunlight.
  •  In the absence of light, the mode of nutrition used is heterotrophic modes of nutrition.
  • E.g.  Euglena is a mixotroph.
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