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Enlist the main features of organisms placed under Protista.

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(i) Most of the members are unicellular and primarily aquatic.

(ii) They have nucleus and typical eukaryotic cell organelles.

(iii) Most of the organisms bear flagella or cilia for movements.

(iv) Mode of nutrition is absorptive, ingestive or photo-autotrophic.

(v) Reproduction may be asexual or sexual.

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