Why Would Natural Selection Favor Reduced Parasitic Bacterial Genomes

question 2

Multiple Choice

Why would natural selection favor reduced parasitic bacterial genomes?

• A) The parasitic lifestyle eliminates metabolism, leading to gene loss.
• B) Parasitic bacteria are primitive and never had metabolic genes.
• C) Parasites have reduced metabolic needs, which leads to gene loss.
• D) Transposons have caused mutagenesis and genes have been lost.

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