Why might the analysis of endosymbiotic bacterial genomes be misleading for understanding the minimal gene set?
A) They are bacteria and therefore have nothing in common with LUCA.
B) They may have gained genes to be able to live within another organism.
C) They may have lost genes that would have been essential to early life-forms due to their reduced metabolic requirements.
D) Their genes can be disrupted by transposons.
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