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Miller & Levine Biology 24.2 Quiz Review

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The ancestors of many modern animal phyla first appeared during the:

a)

Burgess period

b)

Precambrian period

c)

Cambrian period

d)

Edicarian period

2.

Most chordates that live on land have:

a)

two limbs

b)

four limbs

c)

six limbs

d)

eight limbs

3.

The evolution of jaws and paired fins was an important development during the rise of:

a)

tunicates

b)

lancelets

c)

fishes

d)

amphibians

4.

Which two body plan characteristics are shared by arthropods and vertebrates?

a)

cephalization

b)

segmentation

c)

radial symmetry

d)

two germ layers

5.

What body plan features did Cambrian animals evolve that made them more likely to become fossils?

a)

limbs

b)

segmentation

c)

hard body parts

d)

cephalization

6.

Which of these invertebrate animals is in the phylum Porifera?

a)

jellyfish

b)

coral

c)

squid

d)

sponges

7.

Which of these animals is in the phylum cnidaria, and have nematocysts that contain poison? Select all that apply.

a)

hydra

b)

jellyfish

c)

coral

d)

barnacles

8.

What type of fish was well on the road to land-dwelling tetrapods?

a)

sharks and rays

b)

ray-finned fish

c)

lobe-finned fish

d)

hagfish

9.

What type of mammal are we?

a)

monotreme

b)

placental

c)

marsupial

10.

Birds and mammals share which of these characteristics?

a)

feathers

b)

endothermic (warm-blooded)

c)

three-chambered heart

11.

The shared traits of organisms are the basis for their organization into:

a)

clades

b)

species

c)

cadres

d)

cohorts

12.

Which of these animals are vertebrates? Select all that apply.

a)

snakes

b)

sea urchins

c)

kangaroos

d)

brown bears

e)

trout

13.

What trait evolved in the common ancestor of all animals?

a)

heterotrophism

b)

multicellularity

c)

mouth first development

d)

tissues