Question

1. Hypothesize in what type of environments it would be advantageous for a protist to be autotrophic, heterotrophic, or mixotrophic.

Answer 1

Answer:

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Explanation:

Protists fall into the category of eukaryotes. They are diverse in nature and typically are found to be single celled organisms containing very organized structures.They are classified based on what is their source of nutrition.

Autotrophic - capable of photosynthesis to produce their own food, so an environment where sunlight, CO2 and water is available.

Heterotrophic - feed on other organisms , an environment where prey is plenty and very limited or no access to sunlight.

Mixotrophic - a combination of the above two, an environment with all of the aforementioned factors present.