Given the Putative Ancestry of Giardia's Mitosome, What Should We

question 58

Multiple Choice

Given the putative ancestry of Giardia's mitosome, what should we predict is true of the mitosome?

• A) It has electron transport systems that use oxygen as the final electron acceptor.
• B) It has a double membrane.
• C) It has thylakoids.
• D) It contains microtubules, arranged in the "9 + 2 pattern."
• E) It contains 80S (eukaryotic) ribosomes.

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