A protist that lives inside coral animals and carries out ph

A protist that lives inside coral animals and carries out photosynthesis would be called _____.

A protist that lives inside coral animals and carries out photosynthesis would be called _____.

Solution

Answer: a secondary endosymbiont

Explanation: A protist is term given for any eukaryoktic organism that is not an animal, plant and fungus.

Secondary endosymbiosis: In this process eukaryotic cell is engulfed by another eukaryotic cell which is undergone primary endosymbiosis and cannot return to his original state in future. Here protist (eukaryotic cell) is engulfed with coral animals (eukaryotic cell) which is undergone primary endosymbiosis and cannot move to his original state in future.

A symbiotic relationship is in which atleast one member is benefited the other member can be either benfited( mutulism), not harmed (commensalism) or harmed (parasitism).

Here an algae is benefited (symbiont) by living inside (endo) coral animals and coral animals are benefited by getting food produced by algae(protist) by using sun light.