Metagenomic studies of prokaryotes have revealed that
A) there is very little diversity among bacteria.
B) archaea are more closely related to bacteria than to eukaryotes.
C) bacteria and archaea are essentially the same organisms.
D) most archaea evolved from viruses.
E) none of these things were revealed by metagenomic studies.

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Metagenomic studies have shown a vast diversity among bacteria and archaea, and they have not supported the claims that archaea are more closely related to bacteria than to eukaryotes, that bacteria and archaea are the same, or that archaea evolved from viruses.

Metagenomic Studies of Prokaryotes Have Revealed That