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Predict what would happen to a sponge that could no longer produce spicules.


A) Intracellular digestion would cease.
B) Water circulation would be greatly impeded.
C) Gametes could no longer be produced.
D) Vulnerability to predation would increase.

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Germ layers are


A) layers infected with bacteriA.
B) embryonic layers with different developmental potentials.
C) layers of cells surrounding the egg prior to fertilization.
D) colonial protists arranged in layers.
E) layers of gametes.

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In which part of a sponge's body does fertilization occur?


A) the ostium
B) the mesohyl
C) the spicule
D) the spongin
E) the amoebocyte

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Gastrulation is brought about by an invagination of the blastula.

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The recent reassessment of animal classification is the result of


A) new data from Carl Linnaeus.
B) comparisons of DNA and rRNA among different taxa.
C) new,genetically engineered species.
D) developing resistance to antibiotics.
E) new morphological data.

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The tracheae of adult terrestrial insects have been a factor in the great abundance of insects because they serve the same function in terms of the delivery of respiratory gases to the cells as do


A) the gills of aquatic insects.
B) the lungs of mammals.
C) the book lungs of spiders.
D) the closed circulatory system of cephalopods.
E) the Malphigian tubules of spiders.

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Ecdysis is


A) development of the ectoderm layer in the gastrulA.
B) development of the epidermis from the ectoderm.
C) disintegration of the ectoderm.
D) molting of the exoskeleton.
E) the feeding tentacles of the Ecdysozoa.

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Although a medusa and a polyp look different,they have similar body plans.

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All Platyhelminthes are parasitic.

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You are presented with an animal that resembles a jellyfish.As you examine it further,what characteristic would allow you to conclude that it belongs to the Phylum Ctenophora rather than the Phylum Cnidaria?


A) complete digestive tract
B) tentacles
C) gonads
D) stinging cells

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The change of a larval form of insect to a different adult form is known as


A) tagmosis.
B) incomplete metamorphosis.
C) complete metamorphosis.
D) an instar.
E) a chrysalis.

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The animal kingdom is a monophyletic grouping.

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Match the molluscan body part to its function.

Premises
movement
houses organs
secretes the shell
houses gills
Responses
foot
mantle cavity
visceral mass
mantle

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movement
houses organs
secretes the shell
houses gills

If you conducted an experiment in which you took a complete animal that had no germ layers and strained it through a fine-mesh cloth so that all its cells separated,then you placed all the cells together and they reunited to form a new animal,to which phylum would that animal likely belong? (This was an actual experiment. )


A) Platyhelminthes
B) Porifera
C) Ctenophora
D) Nematoda
E) Arthropoda

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Compare a pseudocoelom to a coelom.


A) A coelom is completely enclosed by mesoderm whereas a pseudocoelom has an outer covering of mesoderm and an inner one of endoderm.
B) A pseudocoelom is completely enclosed by mesoderm whereas a coelom has an outer covering of mesoderm and an inner one of endoderm.
C) The coelom is enclosed by ectoderm and the pseudocoelom is enclosed by endoderm.
D) The pseudocoelom is enclosed by ectoderm and the coelom is enclosed by endoderm.
E) The coelom is enclosed by ectoderm and the pseudocoelom is enclosed by mesoderm.

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The choanocytes have a flagellum that moves water through the sponge and a collar that extracts food particles from the water.In what group have you encountered very similar cells before?


A) the choanoflagellates
B) the chytrids
C) the Euglenozoa
D) the charophytes
E) the Foraminifera

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Match each mollusk with the correct taxonomic class.

Premises
Gastropoda
Polyplacophora
Bivalvia
Cephalopoda
Responses
clams
chitons
snails
nautili

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Gastropoda
Polyplacophora
Bivalvia
Cephalopoda

Gastrulation is the development of the gastrula into an embryo.

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Attribute one of these statements to the blastopore.


A) It is the opening from the blastocoel to the outside.
B) It is the opening from the digestive tract to the inside.
C) It can develop into the brain in some animals.
D) It can develop into the gut in some animals.
E) It occurs in both protostomes and deuterostomes.

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Cephalization is


A) embryonic development of the head in advance of the rest of the body.
B) concentration of the sensory organs on the posterior end of the body.
C) concentration of the sensory organs on the anterior end of the body.
D) an evolutionary degeneration of the head as seen in some parasites.
E) a malformation of the head.

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