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A beaker of pond water containing few specimens of Euglena was placed in a dark...

Biology
JAMB 2018

A beaker of pond water containing few specimens of Euglena was placed in a dark room for two weeks. At the end of this period, the specimens of Euglena were still alive because they were

  • A. able to carry out holozoic nutrition
  • B. able to carry out photosynthesis using carbon dioxide in the pond water
  • C. better adapted to life in darkness than to life in light
  • D. not overcrowded
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Correct Answer: Option A
Explanation

Euglena can survive in a dark room for a long time because it has the ability to switch from photosynthetic (using light) to heterotrophic or holozoic nutrition (absorbing nutrients from the surrounding environment) when deprived of light; essentially acting like a tiny animal by consuming organic matter in the water, allowing it to continue living even without photosynthesis through its chloroplasts.

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