Question

What are attributes and the contributions of Rhizaria to the ecosystem?

Answer 1

Answer:

The Rhizaria are supergroup species of mostly unicellular eukaryotes and classified as protista. Rhizaria include species like cercozoa, foraminifera and radiolaria.

Some of the attributes of Rhizaria are:

• non-photosynthethic in nature, but some have a symbiotic relationship with unicellular algae.
• express only rDNA sequences so they can vary in different forms.
• do not have clear morphological characters
• they mostly includes amoebas which functions for food engulfing and help to direct movement in rhizarian protista.

Contribution of Rhizaria to the ecosystem:

• There are known as abundant bacterial grazers, and play very important role in microbial food webs.
• They provide a wide diversity of marine organisms.
• important contributors to oceanic carbon pools .

Hence, Rhizaria are important part of ecosystem.