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Holophytic nutrition is found in ____ .(a) Amoeba(b) Giardia(c) Entamoeba(d) Euglena

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Holophytic nutrition, also known as autotrophic nutrition, is the ability of an organism to synthesize organic substances from inorganic substances using light as an energy source. Among the options you provided, the organism that exhibits holophytic nutrition is (d) Euglena. Euglena is a unicellular organism that possesses chloroplasts, allowing it to perform photosynthesis and produce its own food. Amoeba, Giardia, and Entamoeba, on the other hand, are examples of organisms that obtain nutrition through other means such as phagocytosis or parasitism.