Get some floating slime from a puddle, pick a very small amount of slime and put it on a slide. Separate out one fiber and look at it through the microscope.

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Solution

The organism when observed under the microscope it exhibits a spirally arranged chloroplast in laterally arranged cells that form filament. Therefore, the organism is named as Spirogyra

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