Animal Characteristics and Functions Quiz

Identify traits that characterize all animals.

• Segmentation

• Filter Feeding

• Cell Walls

• Heterotrophic

Invertebrates lack a __________.

• Backbone

• Sympathy

• Ligament

• Nervous system

Select all the essential functions of all animals.

• Feeding

• Mastication

• Excretion

• Salination

When body parts are arranged without a specific pattern

• Radial symmetry

• Asymmetry

• Bilateral symmetry

• Parallel symmetry

When portions of the body become specialized for a specific function

• Speciation

• Augmentation

• Cephalization

• Segmentation

The term Anterior refers to which anatomical direction?

• Towards the back

• Towards the front

• Towards the belly

• Towards the tail

How do animal embryos generally develop? Step-by-step

• 1) Fertilization

  2) Cleavage

  3) organ Formation

  4) Gastrulation

  5) Growth

  6) Gamete formation

• 1) Gamete formation

  2) Fertilization

  3) Gastrulation

  4) Organ formation

  5) Cleavage

  6) Growth

• 1) Gastrulation

  2) Gamete Formation

  3) Fertilization

  4) Organ formation

  5) Cleavage

  6) Growth

• 1) Gamete formation

  2) Fertilization

  3) Cleavage

  4) Gastrulation

  5) Organ Formation

  6) Growth

What does embryology tell us about animal evolution?

• Shows that we come from a common ancestor

• Demonstrates similar anatomical structures

• Shows a common pattern of development

• Is not evidence for evolution

Organizing life forms into groups is called

• Genealogy

• Physiology

• Taxonomy

• Economy

Give an example of accurate binomial nomenclature.