Which of the Following Statements Would Be Least Acceptable to Most

question 79

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 most recent common ancestor of all vertebrates.
• 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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