You should see the typical DCIM/ folder with just .MISC and 100APPLE sub folders. Then you can track whether a third party app or just an accumulation of various photos is causing the folder structure to grow.
Elodea fulfills all of these conditions; therefore, it is alive and therefore an organism.
no elodea would dehydrate because of the high salinity of ocean water, paramecium likewise, and paramecium would get gobbled up by the microscopic zooplankton that is in virtually every drop of seawater.