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"I can be single celled or multicelled. I can reproduce sexually or asexually. I can be heterotrophic or autotrophic. I am Eukaryotic. What am I?"

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The correct answer is a protist.

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A eukaryotic organism, which cannot be categorized as an animal, plant, or fungus is known as protists. They are majorly unicellular, however, some of them are multicellular like algae. Some of the protists can attain energy for living by consuming other organisms, that is, they are heterotrophic. While some obtain energy from the surroundings via the process of photosynthesis, that is, they are also autotrophic.

The protists are mainly found in water, however, some of them also thrive in moist soil. These species can be seen anywhere on the Earth, where there is liquid, even within human beings. The reproduction is some of the protists takes place sexually, that is, with the help of gametes, while in some of the protists asexual reproduction also takes place, that is, by the process of binary fission.

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