Multiple Choice
The most likely mechanism operating a contractile vacuole is
A) proton pumps actively moving water.
B) microtubules actively moving water molecules.
C) sodium pumps keeping the sodium ions on the outside of the membrane.
D) simple osmosis of water.
E) proton pumps forming an ion gradient.
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