What do choanoflagellates tell us about the evolution of multicellularity? Group of answer choices The first multicelllar organisms were a type of slime mold The first multicellular aggregations were probably favored as a defense mechanism against predatory bacteria, which favored larger and larger aggregations Early multicellular organisms did not require adhesion proteins The first multicellular animals made use of pre-existing adhesion proteins to form feeding aggregations

Which statement is not an accurate description of meiosis? a) meiosis produces offspring that are genetically diverse. b) meiosis produces offspring that are identical to the parent. c) in sexual reproduction half of the genetic material comes from the father (sperm) and half of the genetic material comes from the mother (egg). d) meiosis decreases the number of chromosomes by half so that when a sperm fertilizes an egg, the resulting zygote has the correct number of chromosomes.