You Are Working on Tissue Samples with a Colleague and Discover

question 6

Multiple Choice

You are working on tissue samples with a colleague and discover a new kind of virus.Based on the morphological features observed,your colleague says "This is clearly very similar to the common ancestor of all other viruses." You disagree because

• A) viruses have probably arisen more than once and do not have a common ancestor.
• B) viruses have arisen once and their common ancestor has not be discovered.
• C) it is not possible to visualize viruses in the laboratory.
• D) DNA studies would be needed to confirm this.
• E) viral features are too variable to make such a comparison.

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