Quiz 4

Question 1

Plants that are vascular, produce seeds, flower and produce fruit.

Answer 1

Angiosperms

Question 2

Annelids posses which type of muscular arrangement?

Answer 2

Both (Longitudinal & Circular/ Transverse)

Question 3

Ants, bees, wasps are classified into which of the following Orders?

Answer 3

Hymenoptera

Question 4

Bivalves have a ___ circulatory system, cephalopods have a ___ circulatory system.

Answer 4

open, closed

Question 5

Terrestrial insects, such as grasshoppers, utilize tracheal system for gas exchange. t/f

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What does an entomologist study?

Answer 6

Insects

Question 7

Which of the following is pseudocoelomate?

Answer 7

Nematoda

Question 8

What is the function of spiracles?

Answer 8

Spiracles are a series of “portal” like openings located laterally along the abdomen of insects that functions in conjunction with the tracheal system for gas exchange.

Question 9

Sometimes over-hunting/exploitation of a species can severely reduce the size of a population. For example, both California Sea Otters and Northern Elephant Seals were historically over exploited during the mid to late 19th century in the Northern Pacific. After protection from hunting, those populations that survived were a very small subset of the original wide-ranging populations, and possessed a fraction of the previous genetic diversity. The subsequent random assortment of survivors may have different allelic frequencies than what was previously present, most likely significantly reduced in genotypes. This is referred to as:

Answer 9

the “Bottleneck Effect”

Question 10

The “proposed” speciation mechanism by which African Cichlids diversified in Lake Victoria within the same geographic area.

Answer 10

Sympatric Speciation

Question 11

The biggest threat to global biodiversity is…

Answer 11

Habitat Loss/ Fragmentation/ Degradation

Question 12

The cattle egret, Bubulcus ibis, often accompany cattle or other large mammals, catching insect and small vertebrate prey disturbed by these animals. This species maintains a special relationship with cattle, which extends to other large grazing mammals; wide human farming is believed to be a major cause of their suddenly expanded range. The cattle egret removes tick and flies from the cattle and consumes them. this benefits both species, but it has been implicated in the spread of tick-borne animal diseases. how would you categorize the symbiosis between cattle egrets and cattle?

Answer 12

Mutualistic

Question 13

The function of flame cells is…

Answer 13

A and C (excretion of metabolic wastes and osmoregulation)

Question 14

The oldest insects date back to the…

Answer 14

Devonian period

Question 15

What is the function of the “tegument” in trematodes & cestodes?

Answer 15

Protection from host

Question 16

What is the most diverse, successful group of ray-finned fishes?

Answer 16

Teleostei

Question 17

What is the study of the geographic distribution of plants called?

Answer 17

Phytogeography

Question 18

What is the term called when the adult form retains juvenile characteristics?

Answer 18

C and D (Neoteny & Paedomorphosis)

Question 19

When early comparative anatomists, such as George Cuvier, examined fossil specimens of Ichthyosaurs (fish lizards), extant sharks and modern dolphins, a potential misconception in constructing a phylogeny that included all three of these animal groups was based on similar morphology. In fact, similar anatomical solutions to similar environmental/habitat conditions occur in distantly related taxa. What are these similar anatomical features called?

Answer 19

Analogous structures

Question 20

Which scientific field seeks geo-physical explanations for disjunct distributions of organisms?

Answer 20

Vicariance Biogeography

Question 21

“Brittle Stars” are placed into which of the following?

Answer 21

A and B (Stelleroidea & Ophiuroidea)

Question 22

A species that plays a major role in determining the structure of its ecological community is…

Answer 22

A keystone species

Question 23

Spiky Yellow Worm: Phylum? Class? Habitat? Lateral structures that are used for locomotion?

Answer 23

Annelida, Polychaeta, Marine, Parapodia

Question 24

What does and “Arachnologist” study?

Answer 24

Ticks and mites

Question 25

What is the type of body cavity which is solid, filled w/embryonic mesenchymal tissue?

Answer 25

Acoelomate

Question 26

Beetles and weevils are classified into which of the following Orders:

Answer 26

Coleoptera

Question 27

Crayfish (Cambarus) are aquatic crustaceans. t/f

Answer 27

True

Question 28

Filarial worms are spread human to human by which intermediate host?

Answer 28

Mosquitoes

Question 29

Fossil specimens of the mammal-like reptile Lystrosaurus have been found in stratigraphic rock along the east coast of South America, West Africa, and along the Antarctic continent. Which of the following accounts for the occurrence of this genus in three such physically disparate geographic locations?

Answer 29

Continental Drift

Question 30

Gastropoda was the first taxonomic group to exhibit a complete mouth to anus digestive tract. t/f

Answer 30

False

Question 31

In echinoderms placed in the Superclass Stelleroidea/Asteroidea, water is drawn into the water-vascular system through the…

Answer 31

Madreporite

Question 32

In members of subphylum Vertebrata, which structure is replaced by the vertebral column?

Answer 32

Notochord

Question 33

Insects have a hemocoel. t/f

Answer 33

True

Question 34

Metamorphosis in insects when the larval stages resemble morphologically different versions from the adult form is called…

Answer 34

Complete

Question 35

Respiratory trees are found in which class of Echinodermata?

Answer 35

Holothuroidea

Question 36

Which of the following is not a chelicerate?

Answer 36

Hercules beetle

Question 37

What are the 3 subphyla w/in Chordata?

Answer 37

Urochordata, Vertebrata, Cephalochordata

Question 38

What are the 5 Chordate characteristics all chordates possess?

Answer 38

Notochord, Pharyngeal gill slits, dorsal hollow nerve cord, endostyle, post anal segmented tail.

Question 39

Which of the following vertebrate groups is/are physiologically considered homeothermic endotherms?

Answer 39

C and D (Mammalia and Aves)

Question 40

Lancelets are placed into which of the following groups:

Answer 40

Cephalochordata