Which of the Following Statements Would Be Least Acceptable to Most

question 63

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements would be least acceptable to most zoologists?

• A)The extant lancelets are contemporaries,not ancestors,of vertebrates.
• B)The first fossils resembling lancelets appeared in the fossil record around 530 million years ago.
• C)Recent work in molecular systematics supports the hypothesis that lancelets are the basal clade of chordates.
• D)The extant lancelets are the immediate ancestors of the fishes.
• E)Lancelets display the same method of swimming as do fishes.

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