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the name of this 'thing' that shares both fauna and flora chacateristics?

2007-03-09 15:07:48 · 6 answers · asked by Charles V 4 in Science & Mathematics Biology

thanks, the Venus Fly guy is known to be a plant, this 'whatever' was unique, and I don't recall it being a fungi, but it might have been...whoa, to many years and killed off brain cells for me!

2007-03-09 15:26:16 · update #1

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That can be Euglena viridis, a single celled organism with green chloroplasts (plant related structure) and also feeds and moves like a simple animal.
It is studied in advance books on Botany, and Zoology.

2007-03-09 15:50:18 · answer #1 · answered by springday 4 · 0 0

All life currently is classified into 5 kingdoms
The last two kingdims, Plantae(Metaphyta) and Animalia(Metazoa) are vey well known
Of the first three kingdoms, the first one is Monera and includes prokaryotic primitive single-celled organisms such as bacteria. The second kingdom is Protista and includes single-celled eukaryotic organisms. The third kingdom includes fungi which are multi-cellular saprobic organisms.

As the others mention, Eunice viridis is a protist which has chloroplasts(it can prepare its own food like plants in the presence of sunlight) and also shows mixotrophic nutrition(feeds on organic matter in the absence of sunlight).

Your Venus fly trap is a carnivorous PLANT and is grouped under the plant kingdom. It however feeds on insects occasionally by trapping them to supplement its diet with nitrogen which might be lacking in the soil. But it is very much a plant and shows all the characterisitics of being one and should not be thought of as being an animal. Other carnivorous plants include the Pitcher Plant, Bladderwort and Sundew.

2007-03-10 01:59:02 · answer #2 · answered by arsenick 2 · 0 0

I am not sure but I think you may be alluding to the Venus-Fly Trap, which is a canivorous (meat eating) plant.

2007-03-09 23:13:58 · answer #3 · answered by scromlette213 3 · 0 0

Euglena. It's a protist. In the light, it photosynthesizes. In the dark, it engulfs prey.

2007-03-09 23:43:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

I think you are thinking about Fungi - neither plant nor animal.

2007-03-09 23:13:04 · answer #5 · answered by LearningQuestioning 1 · 1 0

Protist.

2007-03-09 23:40:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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