Acidophilus can be either unicellular or multicellular, but they are commonly green algae-like formed and usually unicellular.
The basic reason why unripe fruits have defensive chemicals is that they need to protect the seeds that are not ready to germinate. On the other hand, the seeds of the ripe fruits are ready to germinate and so they need to get spread with the help of animals and birds and so there are no defensive chemicals. These seeds spread to different places and the soils help them to germinate under suitable conditions.
To properly build the phylogenetic tree, Julia needs information that can connect any of mentioned mammals (bear and monkey) to reptiles. And that could be only the fact that a duckbilled platypus lays eggs similarly like reptiles. So, the platypus is a mammal and relationship with bear and monkey in that way exist, but laying eggs is not characteristic for other mammals.
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they need it to function properly