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Foraminifera are primarily marine based, although many have been known to survive in brackish conditions, fresh water, and some even in damp rainforest soil. The foraminifera cell is divided up into granular endoplams and transparent ectoplasm. The pseudopodial net that is contained in the cell maybe emerge through an opening or through many perforations in the test, and is specified by its small granules streaming in all directions. Pseudopods are used for locomotion, anchoring, and capturing food which contains small organisms such as diatoms and bacteria. A large amount of forms have an unicellular algae as endosymbionts and diverse lineages such as green algae, red algae, golden algae, diatoms, and dinoflagellates. Many of the forams known are kleptoplastic (plastids from algae are sequestered by a host organism), which then retain chloroplasts from algae to conduct photosynthesis. | Foraminifera are primarily marine based, although many have been known to survive in brackish conditions, fresh water, and some even in damp rainforest soil. The foraminifera cell is divided up into granular endoplams and transparent ectoplasm. The pseudopodial net that is contained in the cell maybe emerge through an opening or through many perforations in the test, and is specified by its small granules streaming in all directions. Pseudopods are used for locomotion, anchoring, and capturing food which contains small organisms such as diatoms and bacteria. A large amount of forms have an unicellular algae as endosymbionts and diverse lineages such as green algae, red algae, golden algae, diatoms, and dinoflagellates. Many of the forams known are kleptoplastic (plastids from algae are sequestered by a host organism), which then retain chloroplasts from algae to conduct photosynthesis. | ||
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