PLEASE HELP You discover a new protist species. It has chloro- plasts and vacuoles and moves using a flagellum.
How would you classify the way that it gets energy?
Is it an autotroph, heterotroph, or both? Explain
your answer.

Autotroph

Explanation:

An autotrophic organism is any organism that is capable of synthesizing its own food either by using sunlight (photosynthesis) as an energy source or chemicals (chemosynthesis). An organism capable of photosynthesis must possess CHLOROPLAST (CHLOROPHYLL), which is responsible for capturing sunlight in the cell and also harbors the photosynthetic process.

According to this question, a newly discovered protist is said to have chloroplasts and vacuoles and moves using a flagellum. Due to the fact that this protist possess CHLOROPLAST organelle, it means it can perform photosynthesis, which is one of the ways an autotrophic organism synthesizes it's food. Hence, the organism is AUTOTROPHIC.

answer: c.

explanation:

i think it’s c but i might be wrong. if i am let me know! have a good rest of your day as well!