The Following Questions Refer to the Description and Figure Below

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Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the description and figure below.
The figure represents a cross section of the sea floor through a mid-ocean rift valley, with alternating patches of black and white indicating sea floor with reversed magnetic polarities. At the arrow labeled "I" (the rift valley) , the igneous rock of the sea floor is so young that it can be accurately dated using carbon-14 dating. At the arrow labeled "III," however, the igneous rock is about 1 million years old, and potassium-40 dating is typically used to date such rocks. NOTE: the dashed horizontal arrows indicate the direction of sea-floor spreading, away from the rift valley.
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-Which of the following statements provides the strongest evidence that prokaryotes evolved before eukaryotes?

• A)the primitive structure of plants
• B)meteorites that have struck Earth
• C)abiotic laboratory experiments that produced liposomes
• D)Liposomes closely resemble prokaryotic cells.
• E)The oldest fossilized cells resemble prokaryotes.

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