Question 15

(Multiple Choice)

One of the smallest eukaryotes recently discovered, the green alga Ostreococcus tauri, measures less than ________ across and its genome (8 Mb) is ________ the size of that of Escherichia coli.


A) 2 mm; barely twice
B) 500 nm; half
C) 10 mm; about
D) 1 mm; three times
E) 100 mm; five times

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