Chlorarachniophyte and cryptophyte algae contain three sets of genetic material:

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Chlorarachniophyte and cryptophyte algae contain three sets of genetic material: the nuclear genome, the chloroplast genome, and a set of genes found in the nucleomorph. What, in terms of the endosymbiotic hypothesis, is represented by the nucleomorph genes?

Question 6 options:

genes that migrated from the host's nucleus into the symbiont

genes introduced by viral infection and transduction

genes that migrated from the chloroplast into the host's genome remnant

genes from the nucleus of a eukaryotic algal endosymbiont

Explanation / Answer

3rd option is correct. That iis Genes that migrated from the chloroplasts into the host's genome Remnant

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