Animal-like protists are also commonly called:

• A. Algae
• B. Protozoa
• C. Fungi
• D. Bacteria

Answer: (B)

Animal-like protists are a group of single-celled eukaryotes that feed on other organisms and move to find food. This animal-like lifestyle is captured by the term protozoa, which historically meant “first animals.” Protozoa include organisms that move with cilia, flagella, or amoeboid pseudopods and ingest their food rather than performing photosynthesis. Algae are plant-like protists that carry out photosynthesis; fungi are absorptive organisms with different cell structures, often forming filaments; bacteria are prokaryotes lacking a true nucleus. So the animal-like protists are best called protozoa.