Check this out. This is a table of differences between algae and fungi. Hope this helps.
The genotype of the plant is <span>WwXxYyZz.
The plant has a 50% chance of passing each of the alleles of a gene, the dominant or the recessive.
So, for producing the haploid genotype of a gamete </span><span>Wxyz the chance is
0,5 (W)* 0,5 (x)* 0,5 (y) * 0,5( z)= 0,0625
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Based on that scenario, a faulty reasoning that the student's research advisor most likely point out is : The rock that makes up the fossils replaced the organisms tissue and genetic material,
Because of this , their genomes can't be extracted.
hope this helps