While Sampling Marine Plankton in a Lab, a Student Encounters

Multiple Choice

While sampling marine plankton in a lab, a student encounters large numbers of fertilized eggs. The student rears some of the eggs in the laboratory for further study and finds that the blastopore becomes the mouth. The embryo develops into a trochophore larva and eventually has a coelom and a hemocoel. To which group of organisms did these eggs likely belong?

A) echinoderms
B) molluscs
C) nematodes
D) arthropods