CHp. 30:

A grasshopper belongs in the Ecdysozoa clade because of its ability to:

molt

Sponges have specialized cells, but those cells are not organized into:

tissues.

What molecular evidence have been found in cnidarians, which have radial symmetry, that is evidence to indicate cnidarians share a common ancestor with bilateral animals?

Hox genes

Which of the following is a major problem for sessile animals?

They are unable to escape unfavorable environmental conditions.

Which statement about echinoderms is FALSE?

They show evidence of segmentation

Which group of organisms display radial cleavage during development?

echinoderms

The epidermis of a nematode is derived from the:

ectoderm

Which of the following explains why fewer animals live in freshwater than in the ocean?

Freshwater is generally hypotonic to tissue fluids.

Diploblastic animals, such as cnidarians and ____, have only two germ layers, ectoderm and ____.

ctenophores; endoderm

What is the key characteristic that defines the Ecdysozoa clade?

The animal molts.

The head end of an animal is known as its:

anterior end

One true characteristic of all animals is that they:

are heterotrophs

The common ancestor of all animals is/are the:

choanoflagellates.

The lining of the digestive tube is formed from:

endoderm

Indeterminate cleavage takes place in ____ and is characterized by a pattern of development where the ultimate fate of each cell is ____.

euterostomes; not fixed until late in the developmental process

The first land animals likely moved onto land how long ago?

450 million years ago

How is a pseudocoelom different from a coelom?

A coelom is a cavity fully lined by mesoderm.

The diverse body plans seen in Animalia apparently developed during the:

Cambrian period

If adult sponges are sessile, why can they still be classified as animals?

Sponge larvae are motile

To include your eyes and ears in the same section, you would need to cut your body in which plane?

frontal

Cells of the blastula undergo ____, a process that forms and segregates the three germ layers.

gastrulation

A marine invertebrate placed into freshwater would have difficulty surviving because:

it would have difficulty with osmoregulation.

A true body cavity completely surrounded by ____ is called a coelom.

mesoderm

The ____ gives rise to muscles, bones, and the circulatory system.

mesoderm

As a scientist, which of the following would you use as evidence to propose changing the traditional animal phylogenies?

molecular data

In most protostomes, the blastopore develops into the:

mouth

Determinate cleavage takes place in ____ and is characterized by a pattern of development where the ultimate fate of each cell is ____.

protostomes; fixed early in the developmental process

Which is a characteristic of ribbon worms and flatworms?

They are acoelomates.