Which of these processes can be included among those responsible for the horizontal components of the figure above?

A) endosymbiosis
B) mitosis
C) binary fission
D) point mutations


A

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Increase in the population of photosynthetic

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Some of the daughter cells resulting from clonal selection of a B cell differentiate into plasma cells. Which of these is a function of plasma cells?

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