After a meal of raw oysters, a woman begins to feel numbness and tingling in her hands and feet. By the time she gets to the hospital, she can no longer move and is having difficulty breathing. The lab finds a protist with two flagella

The organism is a(n)
A) apicomplexan.
B) euglenozoan.
C) dinoflagellate.
D) radiolarian.
E) brown alga.


C

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