The choices are:
A. Absorbing other cells gave a competitive advantage.
B. The formation of amino acids gave a survival advantage.
C. Being unicellular gave a survival advantage.
D. Having genetic material gave a survival advantage.
The right answer is: A
Eukaryotes (or Eukaryota) are a group of all organisms, unicellular or multicellular, characterized by the presence of a nucleus and usually mitochondria in their cells. He opposes the domains of Eubacteria and Archaea.
"Absorbing other cells gave a competitive advantage" is referring to the endosymbiosis of the mitochondria.
The mitochondrion is the result of the endosymbiosis of an alpha-proteobacterium by a primitive eukaryotic cell.
The existence of genes of endosymbiosis (transferred to the nucleus of the host cell and integrated into the genome of the latter) or their vestiges (remaining in the nucleus while the organelles themselves are lost or degenerated) reveals that the ancestors of eukaryotes devoid of mitochondria once contained such organelles.