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Euglena is a unicellular organism with both chloroplasts and mitochondria. If scientists remove all of the chloroplasts from a Euglena and can no longer perform photosynthesis? How would it have to get its food?

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Answer: euglena can feed as an heterotrophs (feeding on other organism)

Step-by-step explanation:

Euglena takes in nutrient by taking in dissolved organic compound by osmosis for nutrition, and can survive without light.

Euglena absorbs the food directly through the cell membrane , entraps the food particles in a vacoule for digestion.

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