What food do euglena and volvox make?

Euglena and Volvox are both unicellular organisms, but they have different ways of obtaining food. Euglena is a mixotroph, meaning it can produce its own food through photosynthesis or ingest other organisms for nutrition. When it photosynthesizes, Euglena uses sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to create carbohydrates and oxygen. It also has a chloroplast, which is an organelle that contains chlorophyll, a green pigment that absorbs light energy. When Euglena ingests other organisms, it uses a process called phagocytosis, where it engulfs the food particle with its cell membrane and then digests it inside the cell.

Volvox, on the other hand, is an obligate photoautotroph, which means it can only produce its own food through photosynthesis. It uses sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to create carbohydrates and oxygen. Unlike Euglena, Volvox does not have a chloroplast; instead, it has a large number of chloroplasts distributed throughout the cell. These chloroplasts contain chlorophyll and are responsible for capturing light energy and converting it into chemical energy. Volvox is a colony of individual cells, so the entire colony works together to perform photosynthesis.