Animal Diversity

The _ plan refers to the morphology of an animal, determined by developmental cues.

• nutritional

• motility

• animal

• body

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Organisms that have three germ layers are referred to as

• triploblastic

• blastomeres

• gastrulation

• diploblastic

The arrangement of body parts around a central axis, as seen in a bicycle wheel or pie is called

• asymmetry

• bilateral symmetry

• radial symmetry

• body plant

Which germ layer gives rise to the outer epithelial covering of the body surface, the central nervous system, and a few other structures

• mesoderm

• endoderm

• ectoderm

• eucoeloderm

Triploblasts that do not develop a coelom are called

• eucoelomate

• acoelomate

• coelomate

• pseudocoelomate

Bilaterally symmetrical, triploblastic eucoelomates where the blastopore develops into a mouth are called

• deuterostomes

• coelomates

• pseudoceolomates

• protostomes

A rapid diversification of animals that appeared about 542-488 mya

• Jurassic explosion

• Cambrian explosion

• Triassic explosion

• Quaternary explosion

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How many mass extinction events have occurred throughout history?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• More than 5

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Which of the following would be the result of a HOX gene mutation?

• abnormal body length or height

• two different eye colors

• the contraction of a genetic illness

• two fewer appendages than normal

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Which of the following is thought to be the most closely related to the animal ancestor?

• fungus

• protists

• plants

• bacteria

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