You are working on a team to characterize a local lake's plankton community. Using a compound microscope, you isolate one specimen from a water sample. It is unicellular and has a specialized feeding groove cut into the cell surface. What cannot be true of this species?

A. It is heterotrophic.
B. Its locomotion is facilitated by one or more flagella.
C. Glycolysis takes place in a peroxisome.
D. It is an osmotroph.
E. Its locomotion is facilitated by inter-locking protein strips.


D. It is an osmotroph.

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