While Exploring a Newly Exposed Shoreline, You Find a New

question 59

Multiple Choice

While exploring a newly exposed shoreline, you find a new protist. It appears to be multicellular, it uses carbon dioxide from the air to carry out photosynthesis, and its chloroplasts closely resemble those of ferns and grasses. This organism is most likely to belong to the group

• A) brown alga.
• B) apicomplexan.
• C) diatom.
• D) green alga.
• E) slime mold.

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Definitions:

Prefrontal Lobe

A part of the frontal lobes of the brain involved in decision making, social behavior, and personality expression.

Hippocampus

A major component of the brains of humans and other vertebrates, involved in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory and spatial navigation.

Short-term Memory

The part of the memory system where information is stored for a brief period of time, typically from several seconds to a minute, before it is either discarded or transferred to long-term memory.

Hippocampus

A major component of the brain in humans and other vertebrates, playing critical roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory and spatial navigation.