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Euglena is a plant because it is eukaryotic, has a nucleus, makes its own food, and is unicellular.

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Euglena belongs to kingdom protista

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Euglena contains both plant like(presence of chlorophyll) and animal like(heterotrophic mode of nutrition in darkness and lack of cell wall) characteristics.To accommodate such organisms Ernst Hackel proposed the kingdom protista

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Answer:

No, it is a protists.

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Protists are those organisms which belongs to kingdom protista. These organisms madeup of one cell, having true nucleus and presence of different organelles such as mitochondria, ribosome, lysosomes, endoplasmic reticulum and golgi bodies etc. Euglena is a plant like protist which has the ability to make their own food like plants due to the presence of chlorophyll.

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