Multiple Choice
Which of these, if true, would support the claim that the ancestral cnidarians had bilateral symmetry?
1) Cnidarian larvae possess anterior-posterior, left-right, and dorsal-ventral aspects.
2) Cnidarians have fewer Hox genes than bilaterians.
3) All extant cnidarians, including Nematostella, are diploblastic.
4) β-catenin turns out to be essential for gastrulation in all animals in which it occurs.
5) All cnidarians are acoelomate.
A) 1 only
B) 1 and 4
C) 2 and 3
D) 2 and 4
E) 4 and 5
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