The Journey of Cellular Evolution
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Which organism is used as a model organism for studying cellular signals, disease, programmed cell death, and chemotaxis?

  • Soil-dwelling single-cell organism
  • Plasmodium
  • Dictyostelium discoideum (correct)
  • Bacteria
  • What triggers the shift in Dictyostelium discoideum from a unicellular lifestyle to a multicellular assembly?

  • Exhaustion of food supply (correct)
  • Light and temperature gradients
  • The presence of bacteria
  • Migration ability
  • How many chromosomes does Dictyostelium discoideum have?

  • 10
  • 8
  • 4
  • 6 (correct)
  • What is the anterior-posterior orientation of the multicellular assembly formed by Dictyostelium discoideum called?

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    What is the G + C content of Dictyostelium discoideum's genome?

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