Which combination of features would occur in a typical animal?

multicellular, heterotrophic, obtain food by ingestion, lack cell walls multicellular, heterotrophic, obtain food by absorption, have cell walls composed of chitin multicellular, autotrophic, have cellulose-reinforced cell walls unicellular, heterotrophic, obtain food by ingestion All animals can probably trace their lineage to a common ancestor that lived in the _____. mid to late Precambrian (1 billion years ago or less) Cambrian (542 million years ago) early Precambrian (2 billion years ago) Cretaceous (about 70 million years ago) If an organism is a protostome, what else can you conclude about its body plan? The opening formed during gastrulation ultimately becomes the anus. It has two tissue layers. It is bilaterally symmetrical and has three tissue layers. It is radially symmetrical. Among animals, sponges are unique in that they _____. ingest their food are eukaryotes lack true tissues are multicellular Which phyla both possess a gastrovascular cavity that has only one opening? Cnidaria and Nematoda Platyhelminthes and Nematoda Porifera and Cnidaria Cnidaria and Platyhelminthes In the ocean, you find an organism with a hard exoskeleton and jointed legs. It is _____. an arthropod, more specifically an insect an arthropod, and probably a crustacean an echinoderm, specifically a sea urchin an arthropod, and can only be a horseshoe crab Which feature of insects has promoted their diversification and evolutionary success? Long adult life spans have helped promote the success of insects as a group. Insects have repeated modular segments that develop independently of each other. Thus, insects have been able to evolve appendages that are specialized for diverse functions. Insects have diversified so successfully because they possess repeated modular segments with similar or identical appendages on each of them. Incomplete metamorphosis has contributed to the unusual success and diversity of insect groups that have this type of life cycle.

Which of the following is evidence that the extant phylum most closely related to chordates is Echinodermata? They both have three embryonic tissue layers. Animals in both groups have a coelom. The mature forms of both phyla exhibit bilateral symmetry. They are both deuterostomes. Which characteristic is unique to Chordata (it is a diagnostic feature) and is evident at some stage of the life cycle in all chordates? deuterostome development the backbone endoskeleton notochord Compared to fruit flies, humans have _____. a similar number of genes and similar types of genes that build the body parts and organs; however, the DNA sequences that regulate human gene expression are different about 10 times as many protein-coding genes, which explains our much greater complexity fewer protein-coding genes, but they are more flexible and can produce a greater diversity of proteins; this explains our great complexity relative to fruit flies a totally different set of genes that program development of eyes, limbs, and other features in deuterostomes as opposed to protostomes