front 1 The animal phylum like the protists that gave rise to the animal kingdom is | back 1 Proifera |
front 2 Which of the following is a difference between plants and fungi? | back 2 Fungi are heterotrophic, and plants are autotrophic |
front 3 A graduate student finds an organism in a pond & thinks it is a freshwater sponge. A postdoctoral student thinks it looks more like an aquatic fungus. How can they decide whether it is an animal or a fungus? | back 3 Looks for a cell wall under a microscope |
front 4 The vegetative (nutritionally active) bodies of most fungi are | back 4 Composed of hyphae
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front 5 Fossil fungi date back to the origin & early evolution of plants. What combination of environmental & morphological change is similar in the evolution of both fungi and plants? | back 5 Colonization of land and loss of flagellated cells |
front 6 The multicellular condition of animals and fungi seems to have arisen | back 6 By convergent evolution |
front 7 Lichens are symbolic associations of fungi and | back 7 Cyanobacteria
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front 8 Which of the following best describes the physical relationship of the partners involved in lichens? | back 8 Photosynthetic cells are surrounded by fungal hyphae |
front 9 All fungi share which of the following characteristics? | back 9 Heterotrophic |
front 10 Among the organisms listed here, which are though to be the closest relatives of fungi? | back 10 Animals |
front 11 Both animals and fungi are heterotrophic. Which distinguishes animal heterotrophy from fungal heterotrophy is that only animal derive their nutrition by | back 11 Ingesting it |
front 12 Which of the following is (are) unique to animals? | back 12 Nervous conduction and muscular movement |
front 13 The last common ancestor of all animals was probably a | back 13 Flagellated protest |
front 14 Whatever its ultimate cause(s), the Cambrian explosion is a prime example of | back 14 Adaptive radiation |
front 15 What is the probable sequence in which the following clades of animals originated, from earliest to most recent? | back 15 Bilaterians
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front 16 Arthropods invaded land about 100 million years before vertebrates did so. This most clearly implies that | back 16 Arthropods have had more time to coevolve with land plants than have vertebrates |
front 17 What distinguished a coelomate animal from a pseudocoelomate animal is that coelomates | back 17 Have a body cavity completely lines by mesodermal tissue, whereas pseudocoelomates do not |
front 18 The most ancient branch point in animal phylogeny is that between having | back 18 True tissues or no tissues |
front 19 Phylogenetic trees are best described as | back 19 Hypothetical; portrayals of evolutionary relationships |
front 20 According to the evidence collected so far, the animal kingdom is | back 20 Monophyletic |
front 21 The distinctions between sponges and other animal phyla is based mainly on the absence versus the presence of | back 21 True tissues |
front 22 Which characteristic(s) is (are) shared by both cnidarians and flatworms | back 22 A digestive system with a single opening |
front 23 Against which hard structure do the circular and longitudinal muscles of annelids work? | back 23 Hydrostatic skeleton |
front 24 What would be the most effective method of reducing the method of blood flukes in a human population? | back 24 Reduce the freshwater snail population |
front 25 Humans most frequently acquire trichinosis by | back 25 Eating undercooked pork |
front 26 The heart worms that can accumulate within the hearts of dogs and other mammals have a pseudocoelom , an alimentary canal, and an outer covering that is occasionally shed. To which phylum does the heartworm belong | back 26 Nematoda |
front 27 Among the invertebrate phyla, phylum arthropod is unique in possessing members that have | back 27 Wings |
front 28 What distinguishes complete metamorphosis from incomplete metamorphosis in insects? | back 28 The radically different appearance between adults and earlier life stages |
front 29 Chordate pharyngeal slits appear to have functioned first as | back 29 Suspension-feeding devices |
front 30 Which extant chordates are postulated to be most like the earliest chordates in appearance? | back 30 Lancelets |
front 31 What do all craniates have that earlier chordates did not have? | back 31 Partial or complete skulls |
front 32 Jaws first occurred in which extant group of fishes? | back 32 Chondrichthyans |
front 33 Which of these statements accurately describes a similarity between sharks and ray-finned fishes? | back 33 They have a lateral line that is sensitive to changes in water pressure |
front 34 Which of the following belong to the lobe-fin clade? | back 34 Tetrapods |
front 35 A trend first observed in the evolution of the earliest tetrapod’s was | back 35 Feet with digits |
front 36 Why is the amniotic egg considered an important evolutionary breakthrough? | back 36 It allows deposition of eggs in a terrestrial environment |
front 37 Which year is known as the “age of reptiles”? | back 37 Mesozoic |
front 38 At the end of which period did most dinosaurs and pterosaurs become extinct? | back 38 Crustaceous |
front 39 Which of the following are only extant animals that descended directly from dinosaurs? | back 39 Birds |
front 40 Which of the following are the most abundant and diverse of the extant vertebrates? | back 40 Ray-finned fish |
front 41 Which of the following species is currently thought to have coexisted (at the same time & place) with H. Neanderthalensis? | back 41 H. Sapiens |
front 42 Which of these statements about human evolution is correct? | back 42 Different species of the genus Homo have coexisted at various times throughout hominin evolution |