What is Yuklina plant / cell?

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SarathW
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What is Yuklina plant / cell?

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What is Yuklina plant / cell?
It appears there is a life form called Yuklina which is a plant in the daytime and a living being at night.
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chownah
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Re: What is Yuklina plant / cell?

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Is it this one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euglena#: ... t%20water.
Most species of Euglena have photosynthesizing chloroplasts within the body of the cell, which enable them to feed by autotrophy, like plants. However, they can also take nourishment heterotrophically, like animals. Since Euglena have features of both animals and plants, early taxonomists, working within the Linnaean two-kingdom system of biological classification, found them difficult to classify.
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