Suppose you accidentally find an old preserved permanent

Question:

Suppose you accidentally find an old preserved permanent slide without a label. In your effort to identify it, you place the slide under the microscope and observe the following features:-

a. Unicellular

b. Well defined nucleus

c. Biflagellateā€“one flagellum lying longitudinally and the other transversely.

What would you identify it as? Can you name the kingdom it belongs to?

Solution:

According to the listed features, the organism must be a dinoflagellate. All the eukaryotic unicellular organism belonging to the kingdom Protista.

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