Exam 32: An Overview of Animal Diversity

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Use the table to answer the following question. Organism A B C D Appearance Microscopic, unicellular, with a flagellum Shaped like a basketball, covered with purple filaments, multicellular Hard and branched. multicellular, covered in a sticky coating Multicellular with cell walls Habitat/Activity Swims around in freshwater pools Rolls slowly across grassy fields Attached to rocky surfaces Flies across fields Nutrient Acquisition Envelops and consumes other microscopic organisms Thrives with access to only freshwater and sunlight Traps insects in sticky coating and dissolves them Constructs nets to trap flying organisms, and sucks out internal fluids Reproduction Mates with others; young bud off Mates with others; young emerge from hardened spherical structures No mating, releases winged young that fly off and affix to bare rocks Mates with others, and disperses young ballistically As you are on the way to Tahiti for a vacation, your plane crash lands on a previously undiscovered island. You soon find that the island is teeming with unfamiliar organisms, and you, as a student of biology, decide to survey them (with the aid of the Insta-Lab Portable Laboratory you brought along in your suitcase). You select four organisms and observe them in detail, making the notations found in the figure. In which of the organisms listed would you search for collagen?

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Sponges and ctenophores have both been proposed as basal metazoans. Which of the following types of data support the idea that sponges are the basal group?

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The fact that choanoflagellates and collar cells of sponges resemble each other supports the inference that ________.

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Some researchers claim that sponge genomes have homeotic genes, but no Hox genes. If true, this finding would ________.

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Use the figure to answer the question. Use the figure to answer the question.   Which morphological trait evolved more than once in animals, according to the phylogeny based on DNA sequence data found in the figure? Which morphological trait evolved more than once in animals, according to the phylogeny based on DNA sequence data found in the figure?

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One of the characteristics unique to animals is

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Cadherin proteins help animal cells stick (adhere)to each other. Choose which statement about cadherin in cancer cells that are metastasizing (spreading)throughout a patient's body is most likely correct.

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