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Why are protists hard to identify as plants or animals?
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Why are protists hard to identify as plants or animals?

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In order to be classified as a plant or animal, an organism has to be multicellular, or made of more than one cell. Since it is a unicellular organism with some plant and animalcharacteristics, it is called a protist.Plant cells have walls. ... It used to belong to the kingdom Protista.
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Protists have both animal and plant like characteristics
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