why euglena is called plant cell?

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Organisms have been classified into different kingdom on the basis of several features like whether they are prokaryotic or eukaryotic; unicellular or multicellular etc. Though euglena is unicellular but it has cell wall and photosynthetic ability due to presence of chlorophyll, which is a feature of organisms put under kingdom plantae. Thus euglena is called plant cell.

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