As you are on the way to Tahiti for a vacation, your plane crash-lands on a previously undiscovered island

You soon find that the island is teeming with unfamiliar organisms, and you, as a student of biology, decide to survey them (with the aid of the Insta-Lab Portable Laboratory you brought along in your suitcase). You select three organisms and observe them in detail, making the notations found in the figure above. Which organism would you classify as an animal?
A) organism A
B) organism B
C) organism C


Answer: C

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