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This question asks which term best describes how this organism stores its excess food? our answer choices are cellulose, oil, protein, and carbohydrate.
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So the organism that we are presented with is known as a diatom.
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And this is going to basically be a unicellular algae.
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Basically these are going to be free -floating unicellular algae.
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They really don't form colonies.
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They are going to be quite interesting in the fact that they don't store food in the normal way that you'd expect.
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Because usually when we think of plants, for example, well, they're going to store their sugar that they photosynthes in the form of cellulose and carbohydrates.
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But diatoms are going to be a little bit different.
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And of course, diatoms are also going to be photosynthetic.
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Right, they are autotrophes.
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They make their own phyatoms.
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Food, but it's important to note that they do not store the excess food that they make in carbohydrate fashion.
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And it's not going to be in cellulose fashion either.
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So they're not going to be like a normal plant because remember these are plant -like algae, but they're not plants, right? because these are protists...