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If you look at a drop of pond water under a microscope, all the "little creatures" you see swimming around are protists.

All protists have a nucleus and are therefore eukaryotic. Some protists contain chloroplasts and make their own food, and others don't.

 

Organelles and other structures that you can find in this type of organism
Classification protist images
Protists are either plantlike, animal-like or fungus-like.
 

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