Filter Feeding Is

Filter feeding is

A) a strategy capable of servicing only animals with low metabolic rates, such as bivalve molluscs.
B) a passive process used only by sessile organisms, such as sponges.
C) an active process but is only capable of sustaining small organisms because the filtered particles, such as bacteria and plankton, are so small.
D) by an adaptation of chitinous paired mouthparts of chelicerates.
E) represented in most animal phyla.