Protists are NOT monophyletic. This means that protists:

A. are all more closely related to each other than they are to any other kind of organisms
B. are all more closely related to fungi than they are to any other organisms
C. are all more closely related to bacteria than they are to other organisms
D. are not all more closely related to each other than they are to some other organisms
E. are all members of the same phylum


Answer: D

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