While exploring a sulfur spring, a scientist finds a new organism

It is single-celled, lacks a cell wall, has a few internal membranes, and appears to have set up a symbiotic relationship with a species of free-living purple sulfur bacteria that are common in the spring. There are no other organisms within it. This new organism would be considered a(n)
A) living intermediate. B) eukaryote.
C) aerobe. D) prokaryote.


A

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