A crucial photosynthetic gene of the cyanobacterium that gave rise to the chromatophore is called psaE. This gene is present in the nuclear genome of the cercozoan, but is not in the genome of the chromatophore. This is evidence of _____

A) reciprocal mutations in the chromatophore and nuclear genomes
B) horizontal gene transfer from bacterium to eukaryotes
C) genetic recombination involving a protist and an archaean
D) transduction by a phage that infects both prokaryotes and eukaryotes


B

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