Biology Q3

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Which of the following groups has a series of similar segments that make up most of the body?
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millipedes
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The most numerous, diverse, and widespread animals are the:
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arthropda
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Which of the following groups includes both spiders and horseshoe crabs?
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chelicerates
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Which part of this figure shows the thorax segment of the lobster?
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structure D-the back
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While walking in your basement, you hear a crunching noise and notice that you have stepped on an organism. You look closely and see part of a segmented body and a few jointed appendages. What phylum does this animal represent?
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Arthropoda
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Animals that are segmented and have jointed appendages and an exoskeleton are members of the phylum:
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Arthropoda
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Suppose you use a dissecting microscope to observe organisms that have colonized discs of densely packed, fibrous wood that have been submerged in 6inches of lake water for eight weeks. You see insect cases, insect larvae, and newly emerged insects with wings. You determine that you are looking at an insect species:
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that undergoes complete metamorphosis
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The insect body plan includes many groups of serially repeated units. For example, there are typically three pairs of legs, one on each of the three segments of the thorax. Which of the following options best describes how these pairs of legs develop and evolve?
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the body parts develop in a modular fashion. Therefore, a genetic change could alter the development of one pair of limbs without noticeably changing the rest of the insect's body plan.
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The traits that are unique to insects and have probably contributed to their diversity and success include:
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flight, short generation times, and complex life cycles including complete metamorphosis.
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Most adult insects have three major body parts or sections. They are the:
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head, thorax, and abdomen
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An organism that an fly and has an exoskeleton must be:
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an insect
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Caddisflies are insects that lay their eggs on the bottom of streams. The eggs mature into larvae, and eventually the larvae pupate, move to the surface of the stream, shed their pupal membranes, and emerge as winged adults. Caddisflies demonstrate:
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complete metamorphosis.
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Complete metamorphosis is considered to occur in a species:
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if a pupation stage separates the larval and adult stages
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According to recent genetic research, the complexity of an organism.
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has more to do with how genes are used than with which genes are present.
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According to the "new" revised based on genetic analyses, annelids are a member of the Lophotrochozoa and are most closely related to which of the following groups?
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molluscs
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Which of the following is a unique feature of echinoderms?
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a water vascular system
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The symmetry of echinoderms generally includes:
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bilaterally symmetrical larvae and radially symmetrical adults.
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Which part of this figure shows the tube feet of the starfish?
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structure D-the tube thing
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Which of the following features is unique to chordates?
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a notochord
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To be characterized as a chordate, an organism must:
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display each of the four key characteristics of the chordates at some point in the life cycle
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The flexible, longitudinal rod that is located between the digestive tract and the nerve cord in chordates is called the:
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notochord
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You find a small, elongated animal embedded in the sand with one end sticking out. Among other things, it has segmental musculature, a coelom, a notochord, and a complete digestive tract with an anus located partway down the body. This animal is:
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a chordate
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Which of the following statements about tunicates indicates that these animals are chordates?
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larvae have dorsal hollow nerve cord, a post-anal tail, pharyngeal slits, and a notochord.
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Which of the following is an invertebrate chordate?
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lancelets
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Which of the following are threats to the biodiversity of invertebrates?
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habitat destruction, non-native species, habitat degradation
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Invertebrate diversity contributes to all of the following except
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bioremediation
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Which of the following phyla is most closely related to echinoderms?
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chordata
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Barry Marshall and his collaborators showed that:
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helicobacter pylori bacteria cause chronic gastritis and stomach ulcers
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___ are heterotrophic protists; ___ are photoautrophic protists.
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protozoans; algae
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Protists include:
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multiple clades of eukaryotes with some lineages more closely related to plants, animals, or fungi than they are to other protists.
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According to the figure, green alga resulted from ___, and Euglena resulted from ___.
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primary endosymbiosis; both primary and secondary endosymbiosis
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Which of the following options lists the events of protist evolution in the correct order, according to current science?
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mitochondria and then chloroplasts evolved through primary endosymbiosis; later, algae were incorporated into several other groups of protists through secondary endosymbiosis.
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In secondary endosymbiosis, a/an ___ became endosymbiotic in a/an____.
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autotrophic eukaryotic protist; heterotrophic eukaryotic protist
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choose two of the following events in protist evolution and then put them in the correct order in which they occur according to current science.
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chloroplasts evolved through secondary endosymbiosis. algae were incorporated into several other groups of protists through secondary endosymbiosis.
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you are studying a mini-ecosystem that you created from samples of lake water, plants, and sediment. Your teacher tells you to drop about 10 sesame seeds on the top of the water because they will attract some interesting organisms. One week later, you see that the seeds are surrounded by white fuzz that is extending off of the seeds, and you conclude that the decomposing seeds have been colonized by:
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water molds
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which of the following groups include organisms that are a key source of food in all aquatic environments and whose fossilized forms are used as a filter and as a grinding and polishing agent?
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diatoms
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Which two groups of protists produce hard, mineralized skeletal structures or cell walls that contribute to marine sediments and form fossils?
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foraminiferans and radiolarians
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The famous pink-colored sand of Bermuda's beaches is due to crushed shells of ___, marine organisms with tests made of organic material hardened by calcium carbonate.
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foraminifera
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diatoms
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are autotrophs with a glassy cell wall that contains silica
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alginates are used in many everyday products, including toothpaste and soap. When added to water, they form a thick gel that binds or emulsifies liquids. Alginates come from a group of multicellular stramenopiles that have one pigment that masks all others and therefore gives these organisms a distinctive, dark color. Alginates are derived from:
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brown algae.
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dinoflagellates are best described as
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marine and freshwater algae that can produce harmful red tides.
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which of the following cellular structure is characteristic of amoebas?
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pseudopodia
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___ are stramenopiels that commonly are found decomposing dead animals in freshwater habitats.
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water molds
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Plasmodium, the organism that causes malaria, is a/an:
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alveolate
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Which of the following groups includes protists that reside within the cells of corals?
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dinoflagellates
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Kelp, a seaweed that is anchored to the seafloor by rootlike structures and can grow to heights of 60m, is a kind of:
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brown alga
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Some white blood cells are able to surround and ingest bacteria. Which of the following would you expect to see as part of the blood cell structure?
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pseudopodia
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The main ingredient of crude oil is:
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diatoms
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Multicellular organisms evolved from three different ancestral lineages: alveolates, unikonts, and archaeplastids. Of these, fungi and animals evolved from two different lineages of ___, and land plants are ___.
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unikonts; archaeplastids
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Individual prokaryote cells are about ___ eukaryote cells; collectively, all prokaryote cells on Earth ___.
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one-tenth as big as; weigh about 10 times as much as the total mass of eukaryote cells
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Prokaryotes are classified into
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domain protists and domain archaea
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eukaryotes are ___ prokaryotes
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dependent upon
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___ are toxic proteins secreted by pathogenic bacteria, and ___ are toxic components of the outer membrane of gram-negative pathogens.
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exotoxins;endotoxins
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the bacteria pseudomonas aeruginosa produces a protein that is secreted into its environment. The protein inhibits synthesis of elongation factor 2 in humans. This effect may sound dangerous, but it has been considered as a possible treatment for Hepatitis B. The proetin produced by P. aeruginosas is a/an____.
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exotoxin
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The two diseases that represent high-priority threats as biological weapons today are:
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anthrax and botulinum toxin
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Someone diagnosed with meningitis has inflamed membranes that cover and protect the brain and psinal cord. Meningitis is a result of pathogenic gram-negative bacteria that cause extreme infections when their bacterial cell wall dies and lipopolysaccharide is released. the lopopolysaccharide is an example of a/an ____.
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endotoxin
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Which of the following causes food poisoning and typhoid fever?
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Salmonella
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Rod-shaped bacteria are called:
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bacilli
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One difference between gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria is that"
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gram-positive bacteria have more peptidolycan in their cell walls.
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an unknown bacterial species is recovered from a sick patient's digestive tract. It has a membrane outside the cell wall that contains toxic lipids. This observation indicates that:
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the infection may be quite threatening and difficult to control, because the pathogen is a gram-negative species
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which of the following options correctly pairs a structure in prokaryote cells with its function?
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fimbriae, help prokaryotes stick to each other and to surfaces
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a patient visits her doctor complaining of stomach cramps, vomiting, and nasusea. When he takes a bacterial sample, he determines that E. coli bacteria have used their ___ to attach to the cells lining her gastrointestinal tract.
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fimbriae
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you take a 1-mL sample of pond water and add it to a colorless, viscous media in a small petri dish. When you place it under your dissecting microscope, you see three organisms. Two are struggling to move efficiently through the media, while the third moves more quickly. You attribute the faster movement to the third's organism's:
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flagella
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prokaryotic cell walls function:
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to prevent the cell from bursting in a hypotonic environment.
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you culture the dried soup a 4,000-year-old cooking pot found in an Egyptian tomb and obtain a distinctive species of prokaryote. You immerse a test tube of these bacteria in boiling water for several hours, but the colony grows back. This species is probably:
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endospore-forming.
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The largest group of prokaruotes is the ____, which obtain both energy and carbon from ___>
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chemoheterotrophs; organic molecules
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If you place an organism classified as a photoautotroph at the bottom of a lake and later see that it is able to acquire nutrients from dead plant material, you can conclude the photautotrophis actually a:
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mixotroph
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In 2012, scientists studied modern marchantia liverwort plants and observed that they not only are able to make their own food using energy from sunlight but also absorb chemical nutrients from plant material in aquatic environments. They classified this plants as a:
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mixotroph
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humans are an example of:
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chemoheterotrophs
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Chemoautotrophic bacteria obtain their carbon from ___ and their energy from ____.
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CO2;reactions involving inorganic chemicals
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A bacterium living in an underground septic tank thrives by absorbing organic compounds from decomposing wastes. What is it?
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Chemoheterotroph
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A slimy layer of bacteria coating a surface is also known as a _____.
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Biofilm
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You hang a microscope slide from a submerged, L-shaped PVC pipe in lake water 2 ft deep. The slide is 6inch below the surface and remains there for 8 weeks. Once removed, there is algae, bacteria, fungi. You are looking at a:
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Biofilm
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In phytoremediation, specific plants are planted in areas where toxic chemicals have contaminated groundwater. The roots absorb the contaminants to help eliminate tainted water. This is an example of:
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Bioremediation
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The use of prokaryotes and other organisms to clean up pollutants from soil, air or water is called ____.
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Bioremediation
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Paragraph bout Navajo Nation- the bacteria used in the bioremediation procedure are ____
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Chemoheterotroph
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The trickling filter at a sewage treatment plant works by...
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Passing wastewater through a thick bed of rocks. Biofilms of bacteria and fungi on the rocks remove much of the organic material dissolved in the waste water
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Bio venting is scientific technology that uses microorganisms to break down components of fuels in groundwater. An example of:
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Bioremediation
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Typical embryos have ___, or external cell layer, and ___, which lines the digestive tract.
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Ectoderm; endoderm
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Which of the following is true of a typical animal?
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Homeotic genes play important roles in the development of the organism zygote to adult
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All animals...
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Are heterotrophic
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___ are soil dwellers; ___ are mostly marine; and ___ mostly inhabit fresh water
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Earthworms Polychaetes Leeches
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Which of the following is true?
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Arthropoda have open circulatory systems while Annelida are closed
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You find a wormlike soft bodied adult animal in a mudflat. Represents phylum:
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Annelida
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Which adaptation is a key characteristic of Annelida that greatly increased flexibility and mobility?
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Segmentation
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Which of the following is considered a likely explanation for the events of the Cambrian explosion?
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Complex predator prey relationships and increased atmospheric oxygen levels promoted animal diversification
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Animals directly evolved from
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Protists
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Most of the animals alive today
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Are invertebrates
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During the Cambrian explosion,
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Animals rapidly diversified in oceans
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Which exhibits bilateral symmetry?
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Butterfly
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In protostomes,
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The opening form during gastrulation becomes the mouth
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Which exhibits radial symmetry?
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Sea anemone
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Dogs head is at its ___ end and its belly is its __ surface
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Anterior; ventral
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Which is NOT included among eumetazoans that have true tissues?
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Sponges (Porifera)
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Typical sponge best described as-
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Sessile suspension or filter feeder with no body symmetry or true tissues
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Which regarding cnidarians is true?
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Digestive and circulatory compartment is called the gastrovascular cavity
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Cassiopeia is marine organism. (Paragraph) Cassiopeia is a ___ and the Cassiopeia and the algae have a ___ relationship
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Cnidarian; symbiotic
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Corals supplement energy they recieve from zooxanthelae by capturing prey with their
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Cnidocytes or nematosists
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Tapeworms are similar to fungi In that...
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Feed by absorption
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a cuticle is to a nematode as a ___ is to ___.
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Raincoat to human
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Bilaterally symmetrical, wormlike animal with a complete digestive tract and cuticle is part of what phylum?
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Nematoda
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Digestive tract of a nematode is most like which of the following?
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Soda straw
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You inflate a balloon and let it go. The motion resembles the movement of
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Squid
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Which mollusc group includes primarily sedentary animals that use mucus coated gills to trap particles?
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Bivalves
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Digestion in a sponge takes place in ____ _____, while digestion in a more complex animal takes place in __ ___
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Individual cells Internal cavity
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Some of the food you eat is stored as ___ or ___.
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Fat Glycogen
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T/F: zygote divides by process called Cleavage
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True
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The embryonic development of sponges do not include
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Formation of endoderm Gastrula stage Formation of ectoderm
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Which is not radially symmetrical?
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Spider
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Organisms with true radial symmetry:
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No distinct head region and tend to be sedentary or passive drifters
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Which statement about deuterostromes is true?
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Opening that forms during gastrulation becomes the anus
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Which demonstrates radial symmetry?
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Apple pie
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Traditional animal phylogenetic trees and the most recent molecular phylogenic trees have similarities. Which was not in the traditional?
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Grouping of nematodes and Arthropods into class called Ecdysozoa
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The ___ is a flagellated cell that sweeps water through sponges body.
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Choanocyte or collar cell
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How do sponges transport nutrients within bodies?
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Mobile amoebocytes transport food molecules from cell to cell
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Coral reefs are
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Hard external skeletons secreted by coral animals (Cnidaria)
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While wading in the ocean you look down and see umbrella shaped translucent animals. What phylum does it belong to?
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Cnidaria
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What advantage do free swimming larvae confer on reef building corals?
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Allow reefbuilders to expand population into new habitats
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Flatworms are ___ and typically have ___.
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Bilaterally symmetrical; gastrovascular cavity with ONE opening
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Locomotive behavior of earthworms. ----. Which would move easier and why?
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Nematode because it's whiplike motion would propel it
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Typical characteristic of molluscs?
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Rasping organ called the radula
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To be an animal, the organisms must:
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Multicellular Heterotrophic No cell wall
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How might an animal be free moving at one stage and sessile at another?
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Free moving in larval, sessile as adult. Sponges; corals and barnacles
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T/F:Most animals develop from a single fertilized egg called a blastula.
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False- zygote
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T/F: The blastula is a solid ball of cells
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False- hollow ball of cells surrounding fluid filled space
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Gives rise to digestive tract
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Endoderm
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Continues to grow and divide
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All three
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Lines inner surface of gastrula
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Endoderm
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Gives rise to muscles
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Mesoderm
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Develops into skin and nervous tissue
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Ectoderm
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Forms from cells that break off endoderm
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Mesoderm
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A sponges body has how many layers of cells?
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Two
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Divide radially symmetrical thing and get:
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Roughly equal halves
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Divide bilaterally symmetrical thing and get:
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Left and right similar halves
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In what ways are the coelom an advantage for bilateral animals?
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Provides space for organisms to grow larger and feed more freely.
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Describe an acoelomate body plan:
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3 cell layers, digestive tract but no body cavity, plateomenthates
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How do nutrients get to the cells in a flatworms solid, acoelomate body?
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Diffusion
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A roundworm has a ____, a fluid filled body cavity that is ___ lined with ___.
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Pseudocoelom; partly; mesoderm
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Coelomate animals have a ___, a body cavity that is ____ surrounded by mesoderm and in which complex ____ are suspended by ____ layers of mesoderm tissue
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Coelom;completely ;internal organs; double
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Acoelomate-
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Animal with three layers, digestive tract but no body cavity. Flatworm
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Blastula-
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Single layer of cells that forms a fluid filled ball during early development
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Coelom-
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Body cavity completely surrounded by mesoderm
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Deuterstome-
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Animal in which the mouth does not develop from the opening in the gastrula
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Ectoderm-
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Layer of cells on the outer surface of gastrula
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Endoderm-
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Layer of cells lining the gastrulas inner surface
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Gastrula-
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Embryonic structure in animals that consists of two cell layers
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Mesoderm-
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Third cell layer formed in the developing embryo
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Pseudocoelom-
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Body cavity partly lined with mesoderm. In roundworms
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Protostome-
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Animal with a mouth that develops from the opening in gastrula
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Sessile-
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An organism that doesn't move
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The animals digestive tract forms from the:
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Endoderm
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An adult sponge is:
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Sessile
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A bicycle wheel has what symmetry?
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Radial symmetry
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A flatworm has what symmetry?
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Bilateral symmetry
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Animals with bilateral symmetry find foods and mates and avoid predators more efficiently because they have...
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More muscular control
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Sponges get their food by ___ in which small particles of food are removed from the water during passage through a part of their body
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Filter(suspension) feeding
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Cnidarians capture prey by means of ____ which are coiled, threadlike tubes that are sticky or barbed or contains toxins.
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Nematocysts(cnidocytes
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Digestion in Cnidaria takes place in the:
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Gastrovascular cavity
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During feeding, planarians extend a tubelike, muscular organ called the ___ out of their mouths
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Pharynx
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A parasitic tapeworm has a knob shaped head called a ___, by which the worm attaches itself to the hosts Intestinal wall.
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Scolex
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Sponges and earthworms are considered ___ because an individual can produce both eggs and sperm
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Hermaphrodites
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A ___ is the tube shaped body with a mouth surrounded by tentacles which is the ASEXUAL stage of cnidarians. Sessile
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Polyp
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A ___ is the SEXUAL form of a cnidarian that has a body form like an umbrella with tentacles hanging down. Freemoving
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Medusa
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A tapeworm has reproductive organs in segments called:
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Proglottids
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The collar cells of sponges are similar to...
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Flagellated Protists
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A ___ has a pharynx
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Planarian
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Uncooked or undercooked pork may contain-
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Trichina worms
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Nematocysts discharge when...
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tentacles touch a food source
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Some mollusks-LASE
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Hard external shell Live on land Inhabit aquatic env. Are slow moving
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All mollusks-BM2SC
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Bilateral Have a mantle 2 openings in the digestive tract Similar developmental patterns Have a coelom
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Snail-
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Gastropoda in moist areas and on land
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Clam-
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Bivalvia in aquatic places on surface
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Octopus-
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Cephalopoda free swimming in the ocean
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Gastropoda have either ___ shell or __ shell
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Single; no
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Most mollusks have an ___ circulatory system in which blood flows through ___ into open ___ around tissues and organs
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Open Vessels Spaces
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Most mollusks use ___ for respiration while slugs use primitive ___ for gas exchange
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Gills Lungs
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___ are involved in excretion in a mollusk.
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Nephridia
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Fertilization in most mollusks takes place ____
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Externally
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All shelled Gastropoda are predators
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False
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When a snail is disturbed it pulls its body it inside its shell for protection
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True
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Without a shell, terrestrial slugs and sea slugs have no protection against predators
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False
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The two shells of bivalves are held together by the mantle
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false
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Nearly all feed by filtering particles from water
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Bivalve
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Most have a large muscular foot
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Bivalves and Gastropods
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They use a radula for feeding
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Gastropod
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Water flows through their bodies via well developed incurrent and excurrent siphons
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Bivalves
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Cephalopoda: INECRB
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Intelligent Well developed nervous system External shells Carnivorous Radula Bite with a beak
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Bivalves:NOGE
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No distinct head Open circulatory system External shells Gills for respiration and food collection
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Gastropods:ORE
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Open circulatory system External shells Radula
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Members of the phylum ___ all have bodies made up of multiple ___.
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Annelida Segments
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Each segment has its own ___ to lengthen and shorten the body
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Muscles
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When present, bristle like ___ act as anchors while the worm is moving
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Setae
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In bristle worms, each segment has a pair of ___
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Parapodia
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The most familiar Annelida are ___
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Earthworms
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Earthworms have a mouth with tiny teeth
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False- gizzard
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Blood is pumped through five sordid arches in a earthworm
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True
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Some annelid segments are for reproduction
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True
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Leeches:
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Very active Flattened Suckers No setae
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Bristle worm:
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Coral reefs Only eggs Parapodia
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Earthworm:
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Top layer of soil Minute setae Hermaphrodite
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What is the most distinguishing arthropod characteristic?
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Jointed appendages
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Arthropod exoskeletons
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Protect and support internal tissue Space for muscles to attach to Prevent water loss
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Prior to molting a new exoskeleton forms ___ the old one
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Beneath
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Three arthropod body sections-
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Head abdomen thorax
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Cephalothorax:
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Fused head and thorax
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Freshwater crayfish
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Gills
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Tarantula
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Book lungs
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Hissing cockroach
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Tracheal tubes
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Swallowtail butterfly
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Tracheal tubes
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Compound
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Have multiple lenses
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Compound
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Well adapted for detecting slight movement
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Simple
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Have a single focusing type lens
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Compound
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Produce image of thousand parts
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Arthropoda have an open circulatory system where blood comes I direct contact with tissues
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True
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___ occurs in arthropod via the Malpighian tubules
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Excretion
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New Arthropoda adaptions
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Reduction of body segments Specialized segment Nerve tissue in head
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Chelicerae in spiders are modified to
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Hold food and inject poison
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The appendages of a spider that are sense organs
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Pedipalps
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In ticks and mites...
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Head thorax and abdomen fused in one section
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Complete metamorphosis-
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Fertilized egg Larva Pupa Adults only sexually mature form
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Incomplete metamorphosis-
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Fertilized egg Nymph Adults and young eat same food Adult is only sexually mature form