You find a fish carcass in a pond and see white filaments radiating from it.Back in the lab,you stain the white filaments and see that they have cell walls made of cellulose.You have most likely found a species what would be classified within the
A) rhizaria.
B) apicomplexans.
C) red algae.
D) euglenids.
E) oomycetes.

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Oomycetes are aquatic decomposers that resemble fungi, but have cell walls made of cellulose rather than chitin. The white filaments radiating from the fish carcass are likely oomycetes, and the presence of cellulose cell walls confirms this. The other answer choices are not relevant to the description of the white filaments with cellulose cell walls.

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