DNA sequence evidence suggests that plants, fungi, and animals arose from different lineages of unicellular protists. This suggests which of the following?

A. Protists arose before the other three kingdoms.

B. Early ancestors to plants, fungi, and animals could interbreed.

C. Multicellular organisms only arose once in evolutionary history.

D. The animal, plant, and fungal kingdoms contain some single-celled organisms.

E. All unicellular organisms are now extinct.


A. Protists arose before the other three kingdoms.

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