Test 2 Flashcards
Which of the following statements describes how healthy corals appear brightly colored?
they host symbionts with colorful photosynthetic pigments
Why do large animals need specialized organs for gas exchange?
volume increases more rapidly than surface area as size increases
Which of the following best explains how mycorrhizal fungi are more efficient than plants at acquiring mineral nutrition from the soil?
Fungi secrete extracellular enzymes that can break down large molecules.
A researcher is studying animals on a previously undiscovered island, home to many unfamiliar organisms, and decides to survey them using the research equipment at hand. The researcher observes them in detail, and makes the notations shown in the table.
Which organism would you classify as an animal?
Hard and branched, multicellular, covered in a sticky coating
Attached to rocky surfaces
Traps insects in sticky coating and ingests them
No mating; releases winged young that fly off and affix to bare rocks
Which of the following processes contributed the most to the successful evolution of the millions of animal species?
development of multicellularity
You find a multi-legged animal in your garden and want to determine if it is a centipede or a millipede. Which of the following characteristics would allow you to make this distinction?
poisonous claws
As you are walking along a beach, you find an animal and believe that it belongs to the class Asteroidea. Which of the following characteristics would support your hypothesis that the animal is a sea star and not another type of echinoderm?
it has five or more appendages.
Which of the following statements describes a difference between seed plants and ferns?
seed plants produce two kinds of spores
Which one of these mollusc groups is classified as suspension feeders?
bivalves
Which of the following structures carries out sexual reproduction in ascomycetes?
ascocarps
Which phylum is characterized by animals that have a segmented body?
Arthropoda
The heartworms that can accumulate within the hearts of dogs and other mammals have a hemocoel, an alimentary canal, and an outer covering that is occasionally shed. To which phylum does the heartworm belong?
Nematoda
Which of the following statements correctly describes one difference between nematodes and arthropods?
arthropods have an open circulatory system while nematodes do not have a circulatory system
Against which of the following do the circular and longitudinal muscles of annelids work?
hydrostatic skeleton
The most important adaptive advantage associated with the filamentous nature of fungal mycelia is ________.
an extensive surface area well suited for invasive growth and absorptive nutrition
Which of the following is a characteristic of all angiosperms?
double internal fertilization
What do many organisms with deuterostome development have in common?
The blastopore formed during gastrulation becomes the anus.
Which of the following statements applies to both nematodes and arthropods?
grow in conjunction with shedding of their exoskeleton