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Animal Diversity- ch. 27 BSC 2011

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Most animals exhibit the following structures or functions EXCEPT

a)

Nervous and muscle tissues

b)

Unique types of intercellular junctions such as tight junctions

c)

Autotrophic nutrition

d)

Sexual reproduction

e)

Multicellularity

2.

What is the correct sequence of the following four events during animal development?

(1) gastrulation (2) metamorphosis (3) fertilization (4) cleavage

a)

4,3,2,1

b)

4,3,1,2

c)

3,2,4,1

d)

3,4,1,2

3.

The number of legs an insect has, or the number of joints in a digit and location of limbs are influenced by ___________ genes

a)

Haploid

b)

Introns within

c)

Heterotic

d)

Hox

4.

What should animals as diverse as corals and monkeys all have in common?

a)

A body cavity between wall and digestive system

b)

Number of embryonic tissue layers

c)

Type of body symmetry

d)

Presence of Hox genes

5.

Almost all of the major animal body plans seen today appeared in the fossil record over 500 mya at the beginning of the

a)

Cambrian period

b)

Jurassic period

c)

Permian period

d)

Carboniferous period

6.

The major branches of Eumetazoa are the Radiata and Bilateria. These names refer to what characteristic of these animals?

a)

Size

b)

Body symmetry

c)

Embryonic cleavage

d)

Types of appendages

7.

Cephalization is generally associated with all of the following EXCEPT

a)

Bilateral symmetry

b)

Concentration of sensory structures at the anterior end

c)

A brain

d)

A longitudinal nerve cord

e)

A sessile existence

8.

You are trying to identify an organism. It is an animal, but it does not have nerve or muscle tissue. It is neither diploblastic or triploblastic. It is probably a

a)

Flatworm

b)

comb jelly

c)

Sea star

d)

Sponge

e)

Nematode

9.

Which of the following functions is an advantage of having a coelom?

a)

Internal organs are cushioned and protected from injury.

b)

Organs can grow and move independently of the outer body wall

c)

The cavity does NOT allow for the diffusion of gases.

d)

Some of the choices are correct.

e)

All of the choices are correct.

10.

The type of metamorphosis where the eggs hatch and the young resemble the adults is

a)

Incomplete

b)

complete

c)

asymptomatic

d)

zygosymptomatic

e)

homeobox

11.

This animal has _______________ symmetry.

a)

biradial

b)

radial

c)

asymmetrical

d)

symmetrical

e)

bilateral

12.

The blastopore is a structure that is evident in the

a)

Zygote

b)

Blastula

c)

Eight-cell embryo

d)

Gastrula

e)

Egg and sperm

13.

An example of an ecdysozoan animal is a

a)

sponge

b)

crab

c)

shark

d)

jelly fish

e)

squid

14.

What is the significance of homeobox genes?

a)

There are the same 39 genes present in almost all animals.

b)

They control the development of animals from head to tail.

c)

Their presence indicates all animals share a common ancestor.

d)

Some of the choices are correct

e)

all choices are correct.

15.

The layer of tissue that develops into specific tissues during embryonic development is the

a)

Germ layer

b)

Diploblast layer

c)

Triploblast layer

d)

Epithelial layer

16.

The type of animal where the mouth develops from the first opening; includes arthropods, mollusks, and annelids is

a)

Protostome

b)

Deuterostome

c)

Blastopores

d)

Blastocoels

17.

Animals without differentiated tissues (sponges) are called

a)

metazoans

b)

eumetazoans

c)

parazoans

d)

azoans

e)

Deuterostomes

18.

Animals that have two structural features such as a larval stage and feeding stage

a)

chordates

b)

Lophotrochozoa

c)

Protozoans

d)

Amoebozoans

19.

Most rapid evolution of new animal phyla and animal diversity in Earth’s history occurred in the ___________ period.

a)

Cambrian

b)

Jurassic

c)

Hadean

d)

Ediacaran

20.

Early animal life evolved from protists living in this time 635 mya

a)

Cambrian

b)

Ediacaran

c)

Hadean

d)

Jurassic