Three weeks after renovating your house, you finally have time to move the giant load of rotting lumber out by the property line. While loading it into the trailer to haul away, your hand slides through a big puddle of yellow slime on the back of one of the wooden slabs. Ugh! What is this? It looks like scrambled eggs! Or…dog vomit? Being an astute biologist, you quickly realize what it is. Which supergroup categorizes this substance?

a. Chromalveolata
b. Archaeplistida
c. Amoebozoa
d. Rhizaria


c. Amoebozoa

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