You are working on a team to characterize a local lake's plankton community.  Using a compound microscope, you isolate one specimen from a water sample.  It is unicellular and has a specialized feeding groove cut into the cell surface.  What cannot be true of this species?

A. It is heterotrophic.
B. Glycolysis takes place in a peroxisome.
C. Its locomotion is facilitated by one or more flagella.
D. It is an osmotroph.
E. Its locomotion is facilitated by interlocking protein strips.


Answer: D

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