The appearance of the protist differ from that of the onion sample due to the presence of motile structures.
This is an eukaryote which could be unicellular or multicellular and examples include protozoa etc.
The major difference between a protist and onion sample is that protists have motile structures such as flagella, cilia etc while plant cells such as onions don't have.
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