Vestimentiferans can live without a gut because
A) They live near sources of dissolved organic matter
B) They are parasites living within the guts of bivalves
C) They have symbiotic bacteria, which are the source of their nutrition
D) They are protistans
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Q11: Temperature in the deep-sea abyssal plain
A) Is
Q12: Seamounts
A) Are never found near continental margins
B)
Q13: The number of benthic species
A) Increases continuously
Q14: Deep water coral mounds
A) Consist of one
Q15: Deep-water corals
A) Are made of calcite and
Q16: Cold seeps
A) Are found in the same
Q17: The high biomass adjacent to hot vents
Q19: Bivalves and vestimentiferans living near vents
A) Have
Q20: Which of the following statements about hot-vent
Q21: Hot vents, while having a very distinctive
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