Its only byproduct is water." Technically, algae mostly belong to a group of organisms called protists that aren't actually ...
“Algae themselves are part of a mostly aquatic photosynthetic group of organisms called Protista. These algae can be found everywhere there is water and are the food for many other [forms of ...
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Further, the project focused on kleptoplasty, a phenomenon in which a protist steals chloroplasts form algae and use them for photosynthesis. The research was done at the University of Helsinki and at ...
Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host their own microbiomes. "We know there are many symbionts in the world ...