NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Protists are simple eukaryotic organisms that are neither plants nor animals or fungi. Protists are unicellular in nature but can also be found as a colony of cells. Most protists live in water, damp terrestrial environments or even as parasites.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nearly all protists exist in some type of aquatic environment, including freshwater and marine environments, damp soil, and even snow.

Detailed explanation-3: -Protists live in the water because by the water, protists get many advantages like in metabolism, reproduction and its ecology. Metabolism– Protists are primitive eukaryotes which do not have specialized organelles like RBCs. To complete its oxygen demand, they live in the low oxygen atmosphere like water.

Detailed explanation-4: -A protist is a one-or many-celled organism that lives in moist or wet surroundings. Unlike bacteria, protists’ cells are eukaryotic. These organisms have a membrane-bound nucleus and other membrane-bound structures in their cytoplasm.