Which Statement Most Accurately Describes the Colonial Flagellate Hypothesis

question 20

Multiple Choice

Which statement most accurately describes the colonial flagellate hypothesis?

• A)Animals are descended from an ancestor that resembles a spherical colony of flagellated cells.
• B)Both animals and fungi are descended from an ancestor that resembles a spherical colony of flagellated cells.
• C)All animals are descended from an ancestor that resembles a single celled organism that was a flagellated cell.
• D)None of these describe the colonial flagellate hypothesis.

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