Multiple choice

Which organism exhibits the process of kleptoplasty?

  1. Toxoplasma gondii

  2. Cryptosporidium parvum

  3. Dinoflagellates

  4. Heterokonts
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Explanation

Dinoflagellates exhibit the process of kleptoplasty; they take up algae as food and keep the plastid of the digested alga to profit from the photosynthesis; after a while, the plastids are also digested.

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