While Scuba Diving, You Recover Several Samples of a Red

question 95

Multiple Choice

While scuba diving, you recover several samples of a red alga that appear almost crimson in color.When you return to your lab and attempt to grow the alga in your saltwater fish tank, new growth of the alga appears bright green.What best explains this phenomenon?

• A) The intensity of light has changed, affecting pigment composition.
• B) The composition of the salt water has changed, affecting pigment composition.
• C) The alga has engulfed a new cyanobacterial endosymbiont.
• D) The alga is missing vital nutrients that allow for the accumulation of phycoerythrin.
• E) The alga is stressed and is slowly dying.

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Definitions:

Phonology

The branch of linguistics that deals with the systematic organization of sounds in languages.

Sounds Combined

The integration of individual auditory elements into complex recognizable patterns or speech.

Lexical Ambiguity

The idea that some words have different meanings; for example, bank can refer to the side of a river or to a financial institution.

Phonetic Ambiguity

A linguistic phenomenon where a speech sound or sequence of sounds can be interpreted in more than one way due to its pronunciation.