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Author: Eldra Solomon, Charles Martin, Diana W. Martin, Linda R. Berg
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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To explain: The reason some biologists think that apicomplexans descended from dinoflagellates.

Introduction: Chromalveolates refer to a super-group of protists that originated due to secondary endosymbiosis. In this endosymbiosis, an ancestral cell engulfed a red alga giving rise to chromalveolates. Chromalveolates are further divided into two main groups, one of which is alveolates.

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