NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The green algae are subdivided into the chlorophytes and the charophytes. The charophytes are the closest living relatives to land plants and resemble them in morphology and reproductive strategies.

Detailed explanation-2: -A group of single-celled (or colonial) protists called choanoflagellates are the closest living relatives of animals.

Detailed explanation-3: -Plant-like protists are called algae. They include single-celled diatoms and multicellular seaweed. Like plants, algae contain chlorophyll and make food by photosynthesis. Types of algae include red and green algae, euglenids, and dinoflagellates.

Detailed explanation-4: -Protists are more closely related to each other than they are plants, animals and fungi.

Detailed explanation-5: -Choanoflagellates are the closest relatives of animals. They are also single-celled protists and have a flagella at one end of their cell.