Question Error Report

Thank you for reporting, we will resolve it shortly

Back to Question

Q. The protists have

AIPMTAIPMT 1994Biological Classification

Solution:

Protists include all unicellular and colonial eukaryotes except those of green and red algae. They are broadly divided into three groups - photosynthetic, slime moulds and protozoans. The protistan cells are typically eukaryotic having membrane bound organelles like mitochondria, chloroplasts, golgi bodies, endoplasmic reticulum, nucleus etc. Nucleus is well defined. Protists can be uninucleate, binucleate or multinucleate. The genetic material is linear DNA, enclosed by nuclear envelope, complexed with proteins and organised into distinct chromosomes.