Which One of the Following Statements About Origins of Animals

question 29

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following statements about origins of animals is false?

• A)Most taxonomists agree that the origin of the metazoans is polyphyletic.
• B)The multinucleate hypothesis states that metazoans arose from multinuclear protists.
• C)The colonial flagellate hypothesis states that metazoans arose from choanoflagellate-like protists.
• D)The polyphyletic origin hypothesis states that the sponges evolved independently from the eumetazoans.
• E)Molecular data shows that metazoans are more closely related to flagellates than to ciliates.

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