Your study group is in the midst of a discussion on fungi. One of your classmates emphatically states that animals and fungi do not share an evolutionary relationship because they lack common characteristics. You could counter his argument by stating that animals and fungi both

A. exhibit autotrophy and have intracellular spindles.
B. exhibit heterotrophy and possess chitin.
C. exhibit autotrophy and possess chitin.
D. have intracellular spindles and possess chitin.
E. exhibit heterotrophy and have intracellular spindles.

The argument can be contradicted by assuming that both animals and fungi exhibit heterotrophy and have intracellular spindles.

Explanation:

If an argument is required to demonstrate that fungi have common characteristics, it can be taken into account that:

It is currently thought that fungi and animals have a convergent or parallel evolution.

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Fungi characteristics link

ionic bonds are two oppositely charged ions that attract. a sodium ion has a 1 positive charge; a chloride ion has a 1 negative charge. sodium and chloride have oppostive charged ions that attract which forms an ionic bond. a chemical bond formed when two atoms share electrons is called

interphase

the period of cell growth when the cell synthesizes new molecules and organelles. the cell is not dividing and it constitutes the majority of the time spent in the cell cycle

prophase

changes occur in the nucleus and cytoplasm. the chromatin condenses to form structures (sister chromatids) visible with a light microscope and the mitotic spindle begins to form, but the nucleus is still in tact

prometaphase

the nuclear envelope fragments and the spindle microtubules attach to the kinetochores of the sister chromatids

metaphase

all the cell's duplicated chromosomes are lined up at an imaginary plane equidistant between the poles of the mitotic spindle

anaphase

begins when sister chromatids separate from each other and ending when a complete set of daughter chromosomes arrives at each of the two poles of the cell

telophase

the daughter nuclei form at the two poles of a cell

cytokinesis

the division of a cytoplasm to form two separate daughter cells. usually occurs during telophase during mitosis. this and mitosis make up to mitotic (m) phase of the cell cycle