Use the Table to Answer the Following Question As You Are on the Way to Tahiti for a {Organism}\\
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question 56

Multiple Choice

Use the table to answer the following question.
$\begin{array}{c}\begin{array}{|l|}\hline \\\text {Organism}\\\hline \\\\\\\text {A}\\\hline \\\\\\\\\text {B}\\\hline \\\\\\\text {C} \\\hline \\\\\\\text { D }\\\hline\end{array}\begin{array}{l|}\hline \\\text {Appearance}\\\hline \\ \text {Microscopic,}\\ \text {unicellular, with a}\\\text { flagellum}\\\hline\text { Shaped like a}\\ \text { basketball, covered }\\\text { with purple}\\ \text { filaments,}\\ \text { multicellular }\\\hline\text {Hard and branched. }\\\text {multicellular,}\\ \text {covered in a sticky }\\\text {coating}\\\hline\\\\\text {Multicellular with }\\\text {cell walls}\\\hline\end{array}\begin{array}{l|}\hline \\\text {Habitat/Activity}\\\hline \\\\\text {Swims around in }\\\text {freshwater pools}\\\hline \\\\\\\text {Rolls slowly across }\\\text {grassy fields}\\\hline \\\\\text {Attached to rocky }\\\text {surfaces}\\\hline \\\\\\\text {Flies across fields}\\\hline\end{array}\begin{array}{l|}\hline\text {Nutrient}\\\text {Acquisition}\\\hline\text {Envelops and}\\\text {consumes other}\\\text {microscopic}\\\text {organisms}\\\hline\\\text {Thrives with access}\\\text {to only freshwater}\\\text {and sunlight}\\\hline\\\text {Traps insects in}\\\text {sticky coating and}\\\text {dissolves them}\\\hline\text {Constructs nets to}\\\text {trap flying}\\\text {organisms, and}\\\text {sucks out internal}\\\text {fluids}\\\hline\end{array}\begin{array}{l|}\hline \\\text {Reproduction}\\\hline\\\\\text {Mates with others; }\\\text {young bud off}\\\hline\text {Mates with others;}\\\text { young emerge from }\\\text {hardened spherical }\\\text {structures}\\\hline\text {No mating, releases }\\\text {winged young that }\\\text {fly off and affix to}\\ \text {bare rocks}\\\hline\\\\ \text {Mates with others, }\\ \text {and disperses }\\ \text {young ballistically}\\\hline\end{array}\end{array}$

As you are on the way to Tahiti for a vacation, your plane crash lands on a previously undiscovered island. You soon find that the island is teeming with unfamiliar organisms, and you, as a student of biology, decide to survey them (with the aid of the Insta-Lab Portable Laboratory you brought along in your suitcase) . You select four organisms and observe them in detail, making the notations found in the figure.
In which of the organisms listed would you search for photosynthetic genes?

• A) organism A
• B) organism B
• C) organism C
• D) organism D

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