If Natural Selection Would Select Against Organisms with a Nucleus

question 35

Multiple Choice

If natural selection would select against organisms with a nucleus, which one of the following organisms would survive and evolve?

• A) plants
• B) archaea
• C) protists
• D) fungi

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