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Where do dinoflagellates get energy?


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Dinoflagellates:

  1. A class of aquatic protists is known as dinoflagellates.
  2. These eukaryotes are unicellular and have two flagella.
  3. Dinoflagellates obtain their energy from food and nutrients just like all other creatures do.
  4. Dinoflagellates have both autotrophic and heterotrophic feeding strategies.
  5. The photosynthesis process is how autotrophic dinoflagellates make their food.
  6. While microorganisms are what the heterotrophic depends on.
  7. These dinoflagellates obtain energy by engulfing such microorganisms.

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