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On your first research mission you make an amazing discovery by finding a new species living in the hostile environment of the Sahara desert. After observing it carefully you determine that it is not an autotroph, it is multicellular, and it does not contain any chitin. What is the best classification for it

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Animalia

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A multicellular organism is an organism composed of two or more cells. Multicellular organisms include animals (i.e., organisms from kingdom Animalia), plants, and most fungi. Moreover, an autotroph is a living organism that can produce its own food by using materials from inorganic sources (e.g., water, carbon dioxide, etc); whereas a heterotroph is an organism that cannot produce its own food and thereby needs to eat other organisms, like plants or animals, to survive. Multicellular autotrophs are typically plants; whereas multicellular heterotrophs include all animals, fungi and some parasitic plants. Finally, chitin is a polysaccharide (polymer) of N-acetylglucosamine, which is found in the cell wall of fungi, as well as in the exoskeleton of some animal groups such as, for example, insects, crustaceans, etc.

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