Protists and Fungi Question
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Why have protists been "mixed in" with plants, animals, and fungi under the hypothesis that groups eukaryotes into five supergroups?
- Many protists are more closely related to plants, animals, or fungi than they are to each other.
- The discovery of very small protists, similar in size to prokaryotes, has made the former classification scheme obsolete.
- Recent evidence makes it clear that the former kingdom Protista was paraphyletic.
- The discovery that protists had organelles made it clear that they should be grouped with other eukaryotes.
- None of the listed responses is correct.