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1. How does the environment relate to the diversity of protists, fungi, plants,

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Question

1. How does the environment relate to the diversity of protists, fungi, plants, and animals? Both within the same environment and across different environments. Why do we see these different organisms in the same environment or in different environments? Why do we see different versions of these organisms in the same environment? 2. What questions would you have to ask to figure out what kind of organism you were looking at if someone gave you an unknown specimen? How would you narrow it down to a protist, fungus, plant, or animal? 3. Why are there so many different organisms? Why, if we all started out as one celled organisms living in water? 4. How can you organize protists, fungi, plants, and animals according to structure and function?

Explanation / Answer

1. Protist cells have high diversity as there are specialised machinery present so that the nucleus would be absorbing nutrients from the environment. Protists can be identified as all of the eukaryotic organisms except fungi, plants or animals. The protests have different kinds of cells. The protists oils be gaining nutrition from the environment in which they are living as being heterotrophs or photosynthetic. Also these may either be osmotrophs or phagotrophs. The diversity of an organism could be attributed to the environment in which the organism thrives. Diversity comes in the genetic make up of an organism, which depend on the basis of the availability of food in an organism or the synthesis of new materials or the temperature in which a person thrives or the mutations that have taken place in the organism. Along with this, when there occur newer mix and matches in the society, there would be diversity observed among the members of the same species. This diversity encourages survival of the fittest and survival of the organism in that particular surroundings.