1) Both animals and fungi are heterotrophic. What distinguishes
animal heterotrophy from fungal heterotrophy is that only animals
derive their nutrition by
A) preying on animals.
B)
ingesting it.
C) consuming living, rather than dead, prey.
D) using enzymes to digest their food.
Answer: B
2) The larvae of some insects are merely small versions of the adult,
whereas the larvae of other insects look completely different from
adults, eat different foods, and may live in different habitats. Which
of the following most directly favors the evolution of the latter,
more radical, kind of metamorphosis?
A) natural selection of
sexually immature forms of insects
B) changes in the homeobox
genes governing early development
C) the evolution of meiosis
D) the development of an oxidizing atmosphere on Earth
E)
the origin of a brain
Answer: B
3) Which of the following is (are) unique to animals?
A) cells
that have mitochondria
B) the structural carbohydrate, chitin
C) nervous conduction and muscular movement
D) heterotrophy
E) Two of these responses are correct.
Answer: C
4) What do animals as diverse as corals and monkeys have in common?
A) body cavity between body wall and digestive system
B)
number of embryonic tissue layers
C) type of body symmetry
D) presence of Hox genes
E) degree of cephalization
Answer: D
5) The Hox genes came to regulate each of the following in what
sequence, from earliest to most recent?
1. identity and position of paired appendages in protostome
embryos
2. anterior-posterior orientation of segments in
protostome embryos
3. positioning of tentacles in cnidarians
4. anterior-posterior orientation in vertebrate embryos
A) 4 → 1 → 3 → 2
B) 4 → 2 → 3 → 1
C) 4 → 2 → 1 → 3
D) 3 → 2 → 1 → 4
E) 3 → 4 → 1 → 2
Answer: D
6) In individual insects of some species, whole chromosomes that
carry larval genes are eliminated from the genomes of somatic cells at
the time of metamorphosis. A consequence of this occurrence is that
A) we could not clone a larva from the somatic cells of such an
adult insect.
B) such species must reproduce only
asexually.
C) the descendents of these adults do not include a
larval stage.
D) metamorphosis can no longer occur among the
descendents of such adults.
E) Two of these responses are correct.
Answer: A
7) The last common ancestor of all animals was probably a
A)
unicellular chytrid.
B) unicellular yeast.
C)
multicellular algae.
D) multicellular fungus.
E)
flagellated protist.
Answer: E
8) Evidence of which structure or characteristic would be most
surprising to find among fossils of the Ediacaran fauna?
A) true
tissues
B) hard parts
C) bilateral symmetry
D)
cephalization
E) embryos
Answer: B
9) Which statement is most consistent with the hypothesis that the
Cambrian explosion was caused by the rise of predator-prey
relationships?
A) increased incidence of worm burrows in the
fossil record
B) increased incidence of larger animals in the
fossil record
C) increased incidence of organic material in the
fossil record
D) increased incidence of fern galls in the fossil
record
E) increased incidence of hard parts in the fossil record
Answer: E
10) Which of the following genetic processes may be most helpful in
accounting for the Cambrian explosion?
A) binary fission
B) mitosis
C) random segregation
D) gene duplication
E) chromosomal condensation
Answer: D
11) Whatever its ultimate cause(s), the Cambrian explosion is a prime
example of
A) mass extinction.
B) evolutionary stasis.
C) adaptive radiation.
D) All three of the responses are
correct.
E) Only two of the responses are correct.
Answer: C
12) Fossil evidence indicates that the following events occurred in
what sequence, from earliest to most recent?
1. Protostomes invade terrestrial environments.
2.
Cambrian explosion occurs.
3. Deuterostomes invade terrestrial
environments.
4. Vertebrates become top predators in the seas.
A) 2 → 4 → 3 → 1
B) 2 → 1 → 4 → 3
C) 2 → 4 → 1 → 3
D) 2 → 3 → 1 → 4
E) 2 → 1 → 3 → 4
Answer: C
13) What is the probable sequence in which the following clades of
animals originated, from earliest to most recent?
1. tetrapods
2. vertebrates
3. deuterostomes
4. amniotes
5. bilaterians
A) 5 → 3 → 2 → 4 → 1
B) 5 → 3 → 2 → 1 → 4
C) 5 → 3 →
4 → 2 → 1
D) 3 → 5 → 4 → 2 → 1
E) 3 → 5 → 2 → 1 → 4
Answer: B
14) Arthropods invaded land about 100 million years before
vertebrates did so. This most clearly implies that
A) arthropods
evolved before vertebrates did.
B) extant terrestrial arthropods
are better adapted to terrestrial life than are extant terrestrial
vertebrates.
C) ancestral arthropods must have been poorly
adapted to aquatic life, and thus experienced a selective pressure to
invade land.
D) vertebrates evolved from arthropods.
E)
arthropods have had more time to coevolve with land plants than have vertebrates.
Answer: E
15) An adult animal that possesses bilateral symmetry is most
certainly also
A) triploblastic.
B) a deuterostome.
C) eucoelomate.
D) highly cephalized.
Answer: A
16) Soon after the coelom begins to form, a researcher injects a dye
into the coelom of a deuterostome embryo. Initially, the dye should be
able to flow directly into the
A) blastopore.
B)
blastocoel.
C) archenteron.
D) pseudocoelom.
Answer: C
17) A researcher is trying to construct a molecular-based phylogeny
of the entire animal kingdom. Assuming that none of the following
genes is absolutely conserved, which of the following would be the
best choice on which to base the phylogeny?
A) genes involved in
chitin synthesis
B) collagen genes
C) β-catenin genes
D) genes involved in eye-lens synthesis
E) genes that
cause radial body symmetry
Answer: B
18) At which developmental stage should one be able to first
distinguish a diploblastic embryo from a triploblastic embryo?
A) fertilization
B) cleavage
C) gastrulation
D) coelom formation
E) metamorphosis
Answer: C
19) At which developmental stage should one be able to first
distinguish a protostome embryo from a deuterostome embryo?
A)
fertilization
B) cleavage
C) gastrulation
D) coelom
formation
E) metamorphosis
Answer: B
20) What distinguishes a coelomate animal from a pseudocoelomate
animal is that coelomates
A) have a body cavity, whereas
pseudocoelomates have a solid body.
B) contain tissues derived
from mesoderm, whereas pseudocoelomates have no such tissue.
C)
have a body cavity completely lined by mesodermal tissue, whereas
pseudocoelomates do not.
D) have a complete digestive system
with mouth and anus, whereas pseudocoelomates have a digestive tract
with only one opening.
E) have a gut that lacks suspension
within the body cavity, whereas pseudocoelomates have mesenteries that
hold the digestive system in place.
Answer: C
21) You have before you a living organism, which you examine
carefully. Which of the following should convince you that the
organism is acoelomate?
A) It is triploblastic.
B) It has
bilateral symmetry.
C) It possesses sensory structures at its
anterior end.
D) Muscular activity of its digestive system
distorts the body wall.
Answer: D
22) The blastopore is a structure that first becomes evident during
A) fertilization.
B) gastrulation.
C) the eight-cell
stage of the embryo.
D) coelom formation.
E) cleavage.
Answer: B
23) The blastopore denotes the presence of an endoderm-lined cavity
in the developing embryo, a cavity that is known as the
A)
archenteron.
B) blastula.
C) coelom.
D) germ layer.
E) blastocoel.
Answer: A
24) Which of the following is descriptive of protostomes?
A)
spiral and indeterminate cleavage, blastopore becomes mouth
B)
spiral and determinate cleavage, blastopore becomes mouth
C)
spiral and determinate cleavage, blastopore becomes anus
D)
radial and determinate cleavage, blastopore becomes anus
E)
radial and determinate cleavage, blastopore becomes mouth
Answer: B
25) Which of the following characteristics generally applies to
protostome development?
A) radial cleavage
B) determinate
cleavage
C) diploblastic embryo
D) blastopore becomes the
anus
E) archenteron absent
Answer: B
26) Protostome characteristics generally include which of the
following?
A) a mouth that develops secondarily, and far away
from the blastopore
B) radial body symmetry
C) radial
cleavage
D) determinate cleavage
E) absence of a body cavity
Answer: D
27) The most ancient branch point in animal phylogeny is that between
having
A) radial or bilateral symmetry.
B) a well-defined
head or no head.
C) diploblastic or triploblastic embryos.
D) true tissues or no tissues.
E) a body cavity or no body cavity.
Answer: D
28) With the current molecular-based phylogeny in mind, rank the
following from most inclusive to least inclusive.
1. ecdysozoan
2. protostome
3. eumetazoan
4.
triploblastic
A) 4, 2, 3, 1
B) 4, 3, 1, 2
C) 3, 4, 1, 2
D)
3, 4, 2, 1
E) 4, 3, 2, 1
Answer: D
29) What does recent evidence from molecular systematics reveal about
the relationship between grades and clades?
A) There is no
relationship.
B) Some, but not all, grades reflect evolutionary
relatedness.
C) Grades have their basis in, and flow from,
clades.
D) Each branch point on a phylogenetic tree is
associated with the evolution of a new grade.
Answer: B
30) Phylogenetic trees are best described as
A) true and
inerrant statements about evolutionary relationships.
B)
hypothetical portrayals of evolutionary relationships.
C) the
most accurate representations possible of genetic relationships among
taxa.
D) theories of evolution.
E) the closest things to
absolute certainty that modern systematics can produce.
Answer: B
31) According to the evidence collected so far, the animal kingdom is
A) monophyletic.
B) paraphyletic.
C) polyphyletic.
D) euphyletic.
E) multiphyletic.
Answer: A
32) If a multicellular animal lacks true tissues, then it can
properly be included among the
A) eumetazoans.
B)
metazoans.
C) choanoflagellates.
D) lophotrochozoans.
E) bilateria.
Answer: B
33) Which of the following statements concerning animal taxonomy is
(are) true?
1. Animals are more closely related to plants than to fungi.
2. All animal clades based on body plan have been found to be
incorrect.
3. Kingdom Animalia is monophyletic.
4. Only
animals reproduce by sexual means.
5. Animals are thought to
have evolved from flagellated protists similar to modern
choanoflagellates.
A) 5 only
B) 1 and 3
C) 3 and 5
D) 3, 4, and 5
Answer: C
34) If the current molecular evidence regarding animal origins is
well-substantiated in the future, then what will be true of any
contrary evidence regarding the origin of animals derived from the
fossil record?
A) The contrary fossil evidence will be seen as a
hoax.
B) The fossil evidence will be understood to have been
incorrect because it is incomplete.
C) The fossil record will
henceforth be ignored.
D) Phylogenies involving even the
smallest bit of fossil evidence will need to be discarded.
E)
Only phylogenies based solely on fossil evidence will need to be discarded.
Answer: B
35) What is true of the clade Ecdysozoa?
A) It includes all
animals that molt at some time during their lives.
B) It
includes all animals that undergo metamorphosis at some time during
their lives.
C) It includes all animals that have body cavities
known as pseudocoeloms.
D) It includes all animals with genetic
similarities that are shared with no other animals.
E) It
includes all animals in the former clade Protostomia that truly do
have protostome development.
Answer: D
36) Which distinction is given more emphasis by the morphological
phylogeny than by the molecular phylogeny?
A) metazoan and
eumetazoan
B) radial and bilateral
C) true coelom and
pseudocoelom
D) protostome and deuterostome
E) molting and
lack of molting
Answer: D
37) The last common ancestor of all bilaterians is thought to have
had four Hox genes. Most extant cnidarians have two Hox genes, except
Nematostella (of β-catenin fame), which has three Hox genes. On the
basis of these observations, some have proposed that the ancestral
cnidarians were originally bilateral and, in stages, lost Hox genes
from their genomes. If true, this would mean that
A) Radiata
should be a true clade.
B) the radial symmetry of extant
cnidarians is secondarily derived, rather than being an ancestral
trait.
C) Hox genes play little actual role in coding for an
animal's "body plan."
D) Cnidaria may someday replace
Acoela as the basal bilaterians.
E) Two of the responses above
are correct.
Answer: E
38) Which of these, if true, would support the claim that the
ancestral cnidarians had bilateral symmetry?
1. Cnidarian larvae possess anterior-posterior, left-right, and
dorsal-ventral aspects.
2. Cnidarians have fewer Hox genes than
bilaterians.
3. All extant cnidarians, including Nematostella,
are diploblastic.
4. β-catenin turns out to be essential for
gastrulation in all animals in which it occurs.
5. All
cnidarians are acoelomate.
A) 1 only
B) 1 and 4
C) 2 and 3
D) 2 and 4
E) 4 and 5
Answer: B
39) Some researchers claim that sponge genomes have homeotic genes,
but no Hox genes. If true, this finding would
A) strengthen
sponges' evolutionary ties to the Eumetazoa.
B) mean that
sponges must no longer be classified as animals.
C) confirm the
identity of sponges as "basal animals."
D) mean that
extinct sponges must have been the last common ancestor of animals and
fungi.
E) require sponges to be reclassified as choanoflagellates.
Answer: C
The previous figure shows a chart of the animal kingdom set up as a
modified phylogenetic tree. Use the diagram to answer the following
question.
40) Which group contains diploblastic organisms?
A) I
B) II
C) III
D) IV
E) V
Answer: A
The previous figure shows a chart of the animal kingdom set up as a
modified phylogenetic tree. Use the diagram to answer the following
question.
41) Which two groups are most clearly represented in the
Ediacaran fauna?
A) I and II
B) I and III
C) II and
IV
D) II and V
E) IV and V
Answer: B
The previous figure shows a chart of the animal kingdom set up as a
modified phylogenetic tree. Use the diagram to answer the following
question.
42) Which of these is the basal group of the Eumetazoa?
A)
I
B) II
C) III
D) IV
E) V
Answer: A
The previous figure shows a chart of the animal kingdom set up as a
modified phylogenetic tree. Use the diagram to answer the following
question.
43) Which two groups have members that undergo ecdysis?
A)
I and II
B) II and III
C) III and IV
D) III and V
E) IV and V
Answer: C
44) According to the phylogenies depicted in the previous pair of
figures, if one were to create a taxon called Radiata that included
all animal species whose members have true radial symmetry, then such
a taxon would be
A) paraphyletic.
B) polyphyletic.
C) monophyletic.
D) a clade.
E) More than one of
these responses are correct.
Answer: A
45) What is true of the deuterostomes in the molecular phylogeny (B)
that is not true in the traditional phylogeny (A)?
A)
Deuterostomia is a clade.
B) To maintain Deuterostomia as a
clade, some phyla had to be removed from it.
C) Deuterostomia
now includes the Acoela.
D) It is actually a grade, rather than
a clade.
E) It diverged from the rest of the Bilateria earlier
than did the Acoela.
Answer: B
46) In the traditional phylogeny (A), the phylum Platyhelminthes is
depicted as a sister taxon to the rest of the protostome phyla, and as
having diverged earlier from the lineage that led to the rest of the
protostomes. In the molecular phylogeny (B), Platyhelminthes is
depicted as a lophotrochozoan phylum. What probably led to this
change?
A) Platyhelminthes ceased to be recognized as true
protostomes.
B) The removal of the acoel flatworms (Acoela) from
the Platyhelminthes allowed the remaining flatworms to be clearly tied
to the Lophotrochozoa.
C) All Platyhelminthes must have a
well-developed lophophore as their feeding apparatus.
D)
Platyhelminthes' close genetic ties to the arthropods became clear as
their Hox gene sequences were studied.
Answer: B
Placozoan evolutionary relationships to other animals are currently
unclear, and different phylogenies can be created, depending on the
character used to infer relatedness. Sponges have no tissues, but
about 20 cell types. Tp (Trichoplax adhaerens) produces a neuropeptide
almost identical to one found in cnidarians. The genome of Tp, though
the smallest of any known animal, shares many features of complex
eumetazoan (even human!) genomes. The next three questions refer to
the phylogenetic trees that follow.
47) Which phylogeny has been created by emphasizing genomic
features of placozoans?
A) I
B) II
C) III
Answer: C
Placozoan evolutionary relationships to other animals are currently
unclear, and different phylogenies can be created, depending on the
character used to infer relatedness. Sponges have no tissues, but
about 20 cell types. Tp (Trichoplax adhaerens) produces a neuropeptide
almost identical to one found in cnidarians. The genome of Tp, though
the smallest of any known animal, shares many features of complex
eumetazoan (even human!) genomes. The next three questions refer to
the phylogenetic trees that follow.
48) Which phylogeny has been created by emphasizing the
structural simplicity of placozoans?
A) I
B) II
C) III
Answer: A
Placozoan evolutionary relationships to other animals are currently
unclear, and different phylogenies can be created, depending on the
character used to infer relatedness. Sponges have no tissues, but
about 20 cell types. Tp (Trichoplax adhaerens) produces a neuropeptide
almost identical to one found in cnidarians. The genome of Tp, though
the smallest of any known animal, shares many features of complex
eumetazoan (even human!) genomes. The next three questions refer to
the phylogenetic trees that follow.
49) Which phylogeny has been created by emphasizing a protein
found in placozoans?
A) I
B) II
C) III
Answer: B
50) Cycliophorans have two types of larvae. One type of larvathe
Prometheus larvadevelops into a male. The male, which lacks a
digestive system, attaches to the outside of a feeding stage (a
female) and impregnates her digestive system, which develops into a
different type of larva. What must be true of the digestive system of
the feeding-stage female while she is still a virgin?
1. At least some of its cells are haploid.
2. It consists
only of highly specialized cells.
3. It is the same size as the
male.
A) 1 only
B) 2 only
C) 3 only
D) 1 and 3
E) 2 and 3
Answer: A
Trichoplax adhaerens (Tp) is the only living species in the phylum
Placozoa. Individuals are about 1 mm wide and only 27 μm high, are
irregularly shaped, and consist of a total of about 2,000 cells, which
are diploid (2n = 12). There are four types of cells, none of which
are nerve or muscle cells, and none of which have cell walls. They
move using cilia, and any "edge" can lead. Tp feeds on
marine microbes, mostly unicellular green algae, by crawling atop the
algae and trapping it between its ventral surface and the substrate.
Enzymes are then secreted onto the algae, and the resulting nutrients
are absorbed. Tp sperm cells have never been observed, nor have
embryos past the 64-cell (blastula) stage.
51) If Tp sperm are observed by future researchers, how many
chromosomes should be found in a Tp sperm nucleus?
A) 2
B)
3
C) 6
D) 12
Answer: C
Trichoplax adhaerens (Tp) is the only living species in the phylum
Placozoa. Individuals are about 1 mm wide and only 27 μm high, are
irregularly shaped, and consist of a total of about 2,000 cells, which
are diploid (2n = 12). There are four types of cells, none of which
are nerve or muscle cells, and none of which have cell walls. They
move using cilia, and any "edge" can lead. Tp feeds on
marine microbes, mostly unicellular green algae, by crawling atop the
algae and trapping it between its ventral surface and the substrate.
Enzymes are then secreted onto the algae, and the resulting nutrients
are absorbed. Tp sperm cells have never been observed, nor have
embryos past the 64-cell (blastula) stage.
52) In how many of the following ways is Tp unlike the typical
animal?
1. Tp is multicellular.
2. Tp lacks muscle and nerve
cells.
3. Tp has cilia.
4. Tp has a different place where
digestion of food occurs.
5. Tp lacks cell walls.
A) only one way
B) two ways
C) three ways
D)
four ways
E) all five ways
Answer: B
Trichoplax adhaerens (Tp) is the only living species in the phylum
Placozoa. Individuals are about 1 mm wide and only 27 μm high, are
irregularly shaped, and consist of a total of about 2,000 cells, which
are diploid (2n = 12). There are four types of cells, none of which
are nerve or muscle cells, and none of which have cell walls. They
move using cilia, and any "edge" can lead. Tp feeds on
marine microbes, mostly unicellular green algae, by crawling atop the
algae and trapping it between its ventral surface and the substrate.
Enzymes are then secreted onto the algae, and the resulting nutrients
are absorbed. Tp sperm cells have never been observed, nor have
embryos past the 64-cell (blastula) stage.
53) On the basis of information in the previous paragraph, which
of these should be able to be observed in Tp?
A) the act of
fertilization
B) the process of gastrulation
C) eggs
D) All three of the responses above are correct.
E) Two of
the responses above are correct.
Answer: C
Trichoplax adhaerens (Tp) is the only living species in the phylum
Placozoa. Individuals are about 1 mm wide and only 27 μm high, are
irregularly shaped, and consist of a total of about 2,000 cells, which
are diploid (2n = 12). There are four types of cells, none of which
are nerve or muscle cells, and none of which have cell walls. They
move using cilia, and any "edge" can lead. Tp feeds on
marine microbes, mostly unicellular green algae, by crawling atop the
algae and trapping it between its ventral surface and the substrate.
Enzymes are then secreted onto the algae, and the resulting nutrients
are absorbed. Tp sperm cells have never been observed, nor have
embryos past the 64-cell (blastula) stage.
54) In its native environment, a Tp cell neither gains nor loses
water. What should one expect to occur when Tp is placed into fresh
water?
A) no change from the above, as fresh water is its native
environment
B) lysis
C) plasmolysis
D) slight shrinkage
Answer: B
Trichoplax adhaerens (Tp) is the only living species in the phylum
Placozoa. Individuals are about 1 mm wide and only 27 μm high, are
irregularly shaped, and consist of a total of about 2,000 cells, which
are diploid (2n = 12). There are four types of cells, none of which
are nerve or muscle cells, and none of which have cell walls. They
move using cilia, and any "edge" can lead. Tp feeds on
marine microbes, mostly unicellular green algae, by crawling atop the
algae and trapping it between its ventral surface and the substrate.
Enzymes are then secreted onto the algae, and the resulting nutrients
are absorbed. Tp sperm cells have never been observed, nor have
embryos past the 64-cell (blastula) stage.
55) Tp's body symmetry seems to be most like that of
A)
most sponges.
B) cnidarians.
C) worms.
D) tetrapods.
E) Two of the responses above are correct.
Answer: A
Trichoplax adhaerens (Tp) is the only living species in the phylum
Placozoa. Individuals are about 1 mm wide and only 27 μm high, are
irregularly shaped, and consist of a total of about 2,000 cells, which
are diploid (2n = 12). There are four types of cells, none of which
are nerve or muscle cells, and none of which have cell walls. They
move using cilia, and any "edge" can lead. Tp feeds on
marine microbes, mostly unicellular green algae, by crawling atop the
algae and trapping it between its ventral surface and the substrate.
Enzymes are then secreted onto the algae, and the resulting nutrients
are absorbed. Tp sperm cells have never been observed, nor have
embryos past the 64-cell (blastula) stage.
56) In an experiment, several Tp individuals were stained
different colors. The stained individuals were then passed through a
strainer, disaggregated to the level of single cells, and collected
into a common container of seawater. Which subsequent finding would be
most surprising if the Tp individuals used in this experiment had been
produced by sexual, rather than asexual, means?
A) If all of the
cells from a given individual reaggregated to form the same
individual, and if each cell had retained its original identity, as
far as cell type goes.
B) If all of the cells from a given
individual reaggregated to form the same individual, but if each cell
had a different identity than it had before disaggregation.
C)
If cells from different original individuals reaggregated together to
form new individual organisms.
D) If cells from different
original individuals reaggregated together to form new species.
Answer: C
A student encounters an animal embryo at the eight-cell stage. The
four smaller cells that comprise one hemisphere of the embryo seem to
be rotated 45 degrees and to lie in the grooves between larger,
underlying cells (i.e., spiral cleavage).
57) This embryo may potentially develop into a(n)
A)
turtle.
B) earthworm.
C) sea star.
D) fish.
E)
sea urchin.
Answer: B
A student encounters an animal embryo at the eight-cell stage. The
four smaller cells that comprise one hemisphere of the embryo seem to
be rotated 45 degrees and to lie in the grooves between larger,
underlying cells (i.e., spiral cleavage).
58) If we were to separate these eight cells and attempt to
culture them individually, then what is most likely to happen?
A) All eight cells will die immediately.
B) Each cell may
continue development, but only into a nonviable embryo that lacks many
parts.
C) Each cell may develop into a full-sized, normal
embryo.
D) Each cell may develop into a smaller-than-average,
but otherwise normal, embryo.
Answer: B
The most recently discovered phylum in the animal kingdom (1995) is
the phylum Cycliophora. It includes three species of tiny organisms
that live in large numbers on the outsides of the mouthparts and
appendages of lobsters. The feeding stage permanently attaches to the
lobster via an adhesive disk, and collects scraps of food from its
host's feeding by capturing the scraps in a current created by a ring
of cilia. The body is sac-like and has a U-shaped intestine that
brings the anus close to the mouth. Cycliophorans are eucoelomate, do
not molt (though their host does), and their embryos undergo spiral
cleavage.
59) Which of these features is least useful in assigning the
phylum Cycliophora to a clade of animals?
A) having a true
coelom as a body cavity
B) having a body symmetry that permits a
U-shaped intestine
C) having embryos with spiral cleavage
D) lacking ecdysis (molting)
Answer: A
The most recently discovered phylum in the animal kingdom (1995) is
the phylum Cycliophora. It includes three species of tiny organisms
that live in large numbers on the outsides of the mouthparts and
appendages of lobsters. The feeding stage permanently attaches to the
lobster via an adhesive disk, and collects scraps of food from its
host's feeding by capturing the scraps in a current created by a ring
of cilia. The body is sac-like and has a U-shaped intestine that
brings the anus close to the mouth. Cycliophorans are eucoelomate, do
not molt (though their host does), and their embryos undergo spiral
cleavage.
60) Basing your inferences on information in the previous
paragraph, to which clade(s) should cycliophorans belong?
1. Eumetazoa
2. Deuterostomia
3. Bilateria
4.
Ecdysozoa
5. Lophotrochozoa
A) 1 only
B) 1 and 3
C) 1, 3, and 5
D) 2, 3,
and 4
E) 2, 3, and 5
Answer: C
The most recently discovered phylum in the animal kingdom (1995) is
the phylum Cycliophora. It includes three species of tiny organisms
that live in large numbers on the outsides of the mouthparts and
appendages of lobsters. The feeding stage permanently attaches to the
lobster via an adhesive disk, and collects scraps of food from its
host's feeding by capturing the scraps in a current created by a ring
of cilia. The body is sac-like and has a U-shaped intestine that
brings the anus close to the mouth. Cycliophorans are eucoelomate, do
not molt (though their host does), and their embryos undergo spiral
cleavage.
61) If harboring large populations of cycliophorans neither
helps nor harms their lobster hosts, then cycliophorans can be
properly considered to be
1. parasites.
2. mutualists.
3. commensals.
4.
symbionts.
5. endosymbionts.
A) 1 and 4
B) 2 and 4
C) 3 and 4
D) 2 and 5
E) 3 and 5
Answer: C
The most recently discovered phylum in the animal kingdom (1995) is
the phylum Cycliophora. It includes three species of tiny organisms
that live in large numbers on the outsides of the mouthparts and
appendages of lobsters. The feeding stage permanently attaches to the
lobster via an adhesive disk, and collects scraps of food from its
host's feeding by capturing the scraps in a current created by a ring
of cilia. The body is sac-like and has a U-shaped intestine that
brings the anus close to the mouth. Cycliophorans are eucoelomate, do
not molt (though their host does), and their embryos undergo spiral
cleavage.
62) On the basis of the cleavage pattern of cycliophoran
embryos, which of these should be true?
A) It has determinate
development.
B) The blastopore becomes the anus.
C) They
are deuterostomes.
D) A cell separated from a four-cell embryo
should develop into a complete organism.
Answer: A
The most recently discovered phylum in the animal kingdom (1995) is
the phylum Cycliophora. It includes three species of tiny organisms
that live in large numbers on the outsides of the mouthparts and
appendages of lobsters. The feeding stage permanently attaches to the
lobster via an adhesive disk, and collects scraps of food from its
host's feeding by capturing the scraps in a current created by a ring
of cilia. The body is sac-like and has a U-shaped intestine that
brings the anus close to the mouth. Cycliophorans are eucoelomate, do
not molt (though their host does), and their embryos undergo spiral
cleavage.
63) Using similarities in embryonic development, body symmetry,
and other anatomical features to assign an organism to a clade
involves
1. cladistics based on body plan.
2. molecular-based
phylogeny.
3. morphology-based phylogeny.
A) 1 only
B) 2 only
C) 3 only
D) 1 and 2
E) 1 and 3
Answer: E
The most recently discovered phylum in the animal kingdom (1995) is
the phylum Cycliophora. It includes three species of tiny organisms
that live in large numbers on the outsides of the mouthparts and
appendages of lobsters. The feeding stage permanently attaches to the
lobster via an adhesive disk, and collects scraps of food from its
host's feeding by capturing the scraps in a current created by a ring
of cilia. The body is sac-like and has a U-shaped intestine that
brings the anus close to the mouth. Cycliophorans are eucoelomate, do
not molt (though their host does), and their embryos undergo spiral
cleavage.
64) Which of these, if discovered among cycliophorans, would
cause the most confusion concerning our current understanding of
cycliophoran taxonomy?
A) if the ciliated feeding ring is a
lophophore
B) if embryos are diploblastic
C) if the body
cavity is actually a pseudocoelom
D) if the organisms show little
apparent cephalization
Answer: B
The most recently discovered phylum in the animal kingdom (1995) is
the phylum Cycliophora. It includes three species of tiny organisms
that live in large numbers on the outsides of the mouthparts and
appendages of lobsters. The feeding stage permanently attaches to the
lobster via an adhesive disk, and collects scraps of food from its
host's feeding by capturing the scraps in a current created by a ring
of cilia. The body is sac-like and has a U-shaped intestine that
brings the anus close to the mouth. Cycliophorans are eucoelomate, do
not molt (though their host does), and their embryos undergo spiral
cleavage.
65) What is true of the feeding stage of cycliophorans?
1. It is chemoheterotrophic.
2. It is sessile.
3. It
captures food in a manner similar to that of animals with lophophores.
4. It has radial symmetry.
A) 1 and 2
B) 1 and 3
C) 2 and 4
D) 1, 2, and
3
E) 2, 3, and 4
Answer: D
The most recently discovered phylum in the animal kingdom (1995) is
the phylum Cycliophora. It includes three species of tiny organisms
that live in large numbers on the outsides of the mouthparts and
appendages of lobsters. The feeding stage permanently attaches to the
lobster via an adhesive disk, and collects scraps of food from its
host's feeding by capturing the scraps in a current created by a ring
of cilia. The body is sac-like and has a U-shaped intestine that
brings the anus close to the mouth. Cycliophorans are eucoelomate, do
not molt (though their host does), and their embryos undergo spiral
cleavage.
66) Cycliophorans have two types of larvae. One type of larva is
produced when the digestive system of a female is impregnated by a
male. The digestive system then collapses and develops into a larva,
which swims away in search of a new host after the surrounding female
dies. Which is the embryonic tissue that is apparently most important
in forming this type of larva?
A) mesohyl
B) mesoderm
C) ectoderm
D) endoderm
E) mesoglea
Answer: D
67) What conclusion is apparent from the data in the table?
A)
Land animals have more Hox genes than do those that live in water.
B) All bilaterian phyla have had the same degree of expansion in
their numbers of Hox genes.
C) Acoel flatworms should be
expected to contain seven Hox genes.
D) The expansion in number
of Hox genes throughout vertebrate evolution cannot be explained
merely by three duplications of the ancestral vertebrate Hox cluster.
E) Extant insects all have seven Hox genes.
Answer: D
68) All things being equal, which of these is the most parsimonious
explanation for the change in the number of Hox genes from the last
common ancestor of insects and vertebrates to ancestral vertebrates,
as shown in the table?
A) The occurrence of seven independent
duplications of individual Hox genes.
B) The occurrence of two
distinct duplications of the entire seven-gene cluster, followed by
the loss of one cluster.
C) The occurrence of a single
duplication of the entire seven-gene cluster.
Answer: C
69) Two competing hypotheses to account for the increase in the
number of Hox genes from the last common ancestor of bilaterians to
the last common ancestor of insects and vertebrates are: (1) a single
duplication of the entire four-gene cluster, followed by the loss of
one gene, and (2) three independent duplications of individual Hox
genes. To prefer the first hypothesis on the basis of parsimony
requires the assumption that
A) the duplication of a cluster of
four Hox genes is equally likely as the duplication of a single Hox
gene.
B) there is an actual process by which individual genes
can be duplicated.
C) genes can exist is spatial groupings
called clusters.
D) clusters of genes can undergo disruption,
with individual genes moving to different chromosomes during evolution.
Answer: A
70) Among the characteristics unique to animals is
A)
gastrulation.
B) multicellularity.
C) sexual reproduction.
D) flagellated sperm.
E) heterotrophic nutrition.
Answer: A
71) The distinction between sponges and other animal phyla is based
mainly on the absence versus the presence of
A) a body cavity.
B) a complete digestive tract.
C) a circulatory system.
D) true tissues.
E) mesoderm.
Answer: D
72) Acoelomates are characterized by
A) the absence of a brain.
B) the absence of mesoderm.
C) deuterostome development.
D) a coelom that is not completely lined with mesoderm.
E)
a solid body without a cavity surrounding internal organs.
Answer: E
73) Which of the following was probably the least important factor in
bringing about the Cambrian explosion?
A) the emergence of
predator-prey relationships among animals
B) the accumulation of
diverse adaptations, such as shells and different modes of locomotion
C) the movement of animals onto land
D) the origin of Hox
genes and other genetic changes affecting the regulation of
developmental genes
E) the accumulation of sufficient
atmospheric oxygen to support the more active metabolism of mobile animals
Answer: C
74) Which of the following is a point of conflict between the
phylogenetic analyses presented in these two figures?
A) the
monophyly of the animal kingdom
B) the relationship of taxa of
segmented animals to taxa of nonsegmented animals
C) that
sponges are basal animals
D) that chordates are deuterostomes
E) the monophyly of the bilaterians
Answer: B