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#Question id: 11710


Why is the filamentous morphology of the water molds considered a case of convergent evolution with the hyphae (threads) of fungi?

#XL - S Microbiology
  1. Fungi are closely related to the water molds.
  2. Body shape reflects ancestor-descendant relationships among organisms.
  3. In both cases, filamentous shape is an adaptation for the absorptive nutritional mode of a decomposer.

  4. Filamentous body shape is evolutionarily ancestral for all eukaryotes
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#Question id: 8721

#XL - T Zoology

Based on cladistics, which eukaryotic kingdom is polyphyletic and, therefore, unacceptable?

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#Question id: 8773

#XL - S Microbiology

Which eukaryotic kingdom includes members that are the result of endosymbioses that included an ancient aerobic bacterium and an ancient cyanobacterium?

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#Question id: 8773

#XL - T Zoology

Which eukaryotic kingdom includes members that are the result of endosymbioses that included an ancient aerobic bacterium and an ancient cyanobacterium?

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#Question id: 8775

#XL - S Microbiology

Use the following information to answer the question. Paulinella chromatophora is one of the few cercozoans that is autotrophic, carrying out aerobic photosynthesis with its two elongated "chromatophores." The chromatophores are contained within vesicles of the host cell, and each is derived from a cyanobacterium, though not the same type of cyanobacterium that gave rise to the chloroplasts of algae and plants. A crucial photosynthetic gene of the cyanobacterium that gave rise to the chromatophore is called psaE. This gene is present in the nuclear genome of the cercozoan, but is not in the genome of the chromatophore. This is evidence of ________.

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#Question id: 8776

#XL - S Microbiology

What kind of evidence has recently made it necessary to assign the prokaryotes to either of two different domains, rather than assigning all prokaryotes to the same kingdom?

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#Question id: 8783

#XL - R Botany

Which of the following statements is accurate, at least according to our present knowledge?