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

Recognize the barriers to entry created by monopolies and their implications for competition.

Identify the relationship between monopoly equilibrium, economic efficiency, and social welfare.

Explore the conditions under which monopolies may earn zero economic profits in the long-run equilibrium.

Understand the elasticity of the monopolist’s demand curve and its implications for pricing and revenue.

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