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What is one characteristic that you could observe to distinguish diatoms and dinoflagellates

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Answer: Diatoms have a cell wall that includes silica, while dinoflagellates have a cell wall that includes cellulose.

Step-by-step explanation:

Diatoms are unicellular algae. Some of them can live in colonies forming filaments or ribbons, they are surrounded by a cell wall made of silica called a frustula.

They are microscopic animals, almost always single-celled. They have flagella. They can be divided into two large groups differentiated by the presence or absence of cellulosic plaques in the cell wall or amphysm.

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