Which of the following statements best describes secondary endosymbiosis?

A. A host cell ingests two or more symbionts simultaneously.
B. A host cell without plastids ingests a prokaryotic cell.
C. A host cell manufactures its own symbiont and later acquires another one by phagocytosis.
D. A host cell ingests another cell already containing a primary symbiont.
E. A host cell ingests one symbiont and then later ingests another one.


Answer: D

Biology & Microbiology

You might also like to view...

Which one of the following characteristics is NOT true for all living cells?

a. All cells are derived from preexisting cells. b. All cells contain a nucleus. c. All cells utilize organic fuel molecules as energy sources for their activities. d. All cells respond to outside stimulation. e. All cells possess a plasma membrane.

Biology & Microbiology

Describe what is meant by a gratuitous inducer. Give an example

What will be an ideal response?

Biology & Microbiology

All else equal, the theoretical justifications for a particular function form should be stronger in the cases in which you are:

A. attempting to identify correlations only. B. running fixed effects regressions. C. extrapolating further off the support of the data. D. using an instrumental variable.

Biology & Microbiology

You decide to carry out genetic association studies and identify a SNP variant that is found significantly more often in individuals who have schizophrenia than in those who are not affected. This SNP is found within an intron of the SZP gene

A. Can you deduce that an abnormality of the SZP gene is a cause of increased risk of schizophrenia? B. Can you say whether the SNP variant itself is a cause?

Biology & Microbiology