While out hiking you drink water from a stream,and several days later you feel sick with diarrhea and intestinal bloating.Your doctor collects a stool sample and finds unicellular organisms that lack mitochondria and have multiple flagella.You are most likely infected with
A) the diplomonad Giardia.
B) slime molds.
C) kinetoplastid trypanosomes.
D) the ciliate Paramecium.
E) testate amoebozoans.

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Giardia is a diplomonad that is known to cause gastrointestinal symptoms like diarrhea and bloating after consuming contaminated water. It is characterized by its lack of mitochondria and presence of multiple flagella.

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