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WorksheetsMiller & Levine Biology 24.2 Quiz Review
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
The ancestors of many modern animal phyla first appeared during the:
Burgess period
Precambrian period
Cambrian period
Edicarian period
Most chordates that live on land have:
two limbs
four limbs
six limbs
eight limbs
The evolution of jaws and paired fins was an important development during the rise of:
tunicates
lancelets
fishes
amphibians
Which two body plan characteristics are shared by arthropods and vertebrates?
cephalization
segmentation
radial symmetry
two germ layers
What body plan features did Cambrian animals evolve that made them more likely to become fossils?
limbs
segmentation
hard body parts
cephalization
Which of these invertebrate animals is in the phylum Porifera?
jellyfish
coral
squid
sponges
Which of these animals is in the phylum cnidaria, and have nematocysts that contain poison? Select all that apply.
hydra
jellyfish
coral
barnacles
What type of fish was well on the road to land-dwelling tetrapods?
sharks and rays
ray-finned fish
lobe-finned fish
hagfish
What type of mammal are we?
monotreme
placental
marsupial
Birds and mammals share which of these characteristics?
feathers
endothermic (warm-blooded)
three-chambered heart
The shared traits of organisms are the basis for their organization into:
clades
species
cadres
cohorts
Which of these animals are vertebrates? Select all that apply.
snakes
sea urchins
kangaroos
brown bears
trout
What trait evolved in the common ancestor of all animals?
heterotrophism
multicellularity
mouth first development
tissues
