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Animals Test
pre-AP Biology animal questions
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Biology
9th Grade
05/21/2011

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colonial protists
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Modern organisms are thought to resemble these earlier animals
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cells are not organized into tissues
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Distinguishes sponges from other nvertebrates
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Nematocysts
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Can spear a cnidarian's prey
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cnidocytes specialized for defense of capturing prey
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Charaterisic associated only with cnidarians
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cnidarians: nerve net
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Sponges:fewer nerve nets::
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squids
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Phylum Cnidaria does not include
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has no medusa stage
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Hydra is unique among the hydrozoans because it
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Polyp
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Certain cnidarian stage that produces asexually
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sea anemones and corals
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Antrozoans include
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Enables development of more complex organ systems
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Evolution of a coelom is significant because
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pseudopods
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Are not part of the phylum Mollusca
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Squids
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Jet propulsion is the usual means of locomotion in water for
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pumping water through the Siphon
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Jet propulsion in a squid is the result of
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Aneelids
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Segmented worms are known as
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may contain some organ systems that duplicate systems in other segments
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Each segment of an annelid
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vertebral column
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Example of segmentation in humans
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ventral nerve cord and ganglia that carry impulses to the muscles
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mocements of an earthworm's body segment are possibly because of
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nephrida
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small tubules that collect wastes from the coelom of annelids and discharge the wastes from the body
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are waterproof coatings of the bodies
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Exoskelton of arthropods and the skin of vertebrates both
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Chelicerata
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Spiders, scorpions, and horseshoe crabs belong to this subphylum
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Arachnida
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Spiders,scorpions, and ticks belong to the class
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pedipalps
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appendages that scorpions and spiders use to capture and handle their prey are called
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Centipedes
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this organism has one pair of legs per segment and eat other animals
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Sea stars, sand dollars, sea urchins
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Example of echinoderms
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dividing in half through the central region and regenrating the missing halves
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some Sea stars can repdoduce asexually by
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Vertebrates, tunicates, and lancelets
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Are all members,of the phylum Chordata
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jaws
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Is not found in all vertebrates
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Jawless fishes
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the vertebrates were
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cartiliginous fishes
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the class Chondrichytes includes
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touch
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The sense not used by sharks to detect prey
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are housed in chambers on each side of the head
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The gills of bony fishes
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external fertilization takes place
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In most bony fishes
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Amphibian
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'Double life'
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generally return to the water to reproduce
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Toads, like frogs,
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Amphibian heart
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Pumps both deoxygenated and oxygenated blood
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carnivores
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Adult frogs are
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dry and watertight
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Skin of reptiles is
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mucus on amphibians, waxy coating on spiders, and reptilian scales
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Evaporation of water can be limited by
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two artia and one partially divided ventricle
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Reptiles,(except for alligators and crocodiles) have a heart that has
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ectothermic
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Reptiles are
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endodermic, have feathers covering their bodies, have four-chambered heart
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Birds differ from reptiles in that they
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Feathers
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took the place of scales as the body covering of birds
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food capture
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Not a function of contour feathers
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Bird's skeleton
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composed of thin, hollow bones; composed of many fused bones, more rigid than a reptile's
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Male songbirds
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Melodious songs are characterisic of...
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Four chambered hearts
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Mammals, including birds, have
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diaphragm
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Sheet of muscle at the bottom of the rib cage of mammals
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the shape of the teeth
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the fact that the coyote is a predator can be inferred from
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oviaprous
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egg-laying animals
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Carnivora
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dog is a member of the order
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Shelled egg
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Not associated with marsupial mammals
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continental drift
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All monotremes and most marsupials live in Australiaand New Guinea. Limited distribution is due to
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Walk on four legs
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Chimpanzees differ from humans in that they
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Africa
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All austalopithrcine fossils have been discovered in
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ability to see in all directions
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Animals with bilateral symmetry find food and mates and avoid predators more efficiently because they have
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radial symmetry
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the symmetry a penny has
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ectoderm
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layer of cells on the outer surface of the gastrula
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mesoderm
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third cell layer formed in the developing embryo
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True
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True or false? In Arthropods, appendages are adapted for a variety of purposes icluding sensing, walking feeding, and mating
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False
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True or False? The snail serves as aprimar host for the schistosome blood fluke
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False, they are flatworms
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The blood flooks are parasitic roundworms
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False, canines are
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True or false? Teeth called incisors are used to puncture and tear the flesh of prey
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