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Animal Biodiversity (Lectures 13-16)

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undergraduate UoS APS (Biodiversity) Quiz on Animal Biodiversity (Lectures 13-16), created by Beth Moore on 08/01/2015.
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Question 1

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What kind of symmetry do Echinoderms show?
Answer
  • Bilateral
  • Radial
  • Both bilateral and radial

Question 2

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How many arms radiate from the central disc of an echinoderm?
Answer
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 8

Question 3

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Where is the water vascular system of echinoderms derived from?
Answer
  • Coelom
  • Endoderm
  • Mesoderm
  • Ectoderm

Question 4

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True or false? The digestive system, reproductive system and water vascular system are present in each arm of an echinoderm?
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 5

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Which of the following uses its arms for suspension feeding?
Answer
  • Class Asteroidea
  • Class Ophiuroidea
  • Class Echinoidea
  • Class Crinoidea
  • Class Holothuroidea
  • Class Concentricycloidea

Question 6

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Which of the following Echinoderms feeds on kelp?
Answer
  • Starfish
  • Urchins
  • Otters
  • Sea cucumbers
  • Sea lilies

Question 7

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Ture or false? Chordates are deuterostomes.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 8

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The notochord is one of 4 characteristic features of phylum Chordata. What is the notochord?
Answer
  • A rod of tissue which acts as skeletal support
  • Part of the digestive tract
  • The nerve chord
  • The tail

Question 9

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What are structures B and C in the image?
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Answer
  • B= Notochord
  • B= Nerve chord
  • C= Spiracles
  • C= Pharyngeal Slits

Question 10

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Which of the following subphylums have a sessile adult stage?
Answer
  • Urochordata
  • Cephalchordata

Question 11

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Which of the following does a typical cephalochordate possess?
Answer
  • Brain
  • Pharyngeal slits
  • Caudal fin
  • Jaws
  • Tentacles

Question 12

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What do somites develop into?
Answer
  • Muscle
  • Nerves
  • Notochord
  • Bone

Question 13

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Amphioxus is our ancestor.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 14

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How many hypotheses are there for the evolution of segmentation?
Answer
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4

Question 15

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Which of the following are distinctive features of vertebrates?
Answer
  • Brain derived from end of neural chord
  • Teeth derived from the neural crest
  • Vertebral column
  • Dorsal hollow nerve chord

Question 16

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Ostracoderms are ancient Agnatha. They become extinct about 250 mya, but during which time period did they dominate?
Answer
  • Devonian
  • Silurian
  • Cretacous
  • Permian

Question 17

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Which of the following modern Agnatha are scavengers?
Answer
  • Lampreys
  • Hagfish

Question 18

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How do the fresh water larvae of Lampreys feed?
Answer
  • Through suspension feeding
  • Parasitising other fish
  • Scavenging

Question 19

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Which of the following is the only extinct class of gnathostome?
Answer
  • Class Placodermii
  • Class Chondrichthyes
  • Class Actinistia
  • Class Dipnoi
  • Class Actinopterygii

Question 20

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Which of the following is not a trait of Class Chondrichthyes?
Answer
  • Well developed jaws
  • Paired Fins
  • 5 pairs of gill pouches
  • A cartilaginous skeleton which is later replaced by bone

Question 21

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Which of the following is not a sensory adaptation to predatory lifestyle in the chondrichthyes?
Answer
  • Colour vision
  • Lateral line system
  • Electroreceptive organs in the head.
  • Cup shaped smell receptors

Question 22

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What does oviparous mean?
Answer
  • Eggs that are laid with no embryonic development inside the mother.
  • Eggs that are kept inside the parent but there is no trophic interactions between parent and zygote.
  • Eggs are kept within the mother and are reliant on her for nutrients.

Question 23

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What two features allow Chondrichthyes to stay afloat in water?
Answer
  • Heterocercal tail
  • Swim bladder
  • wing-like pectoral fins

Question 24

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Osteichthyes are a group of bony fish including lobe-finned fish, lung fish and ray finned fish. They all have a gas sac organs. Which of the following statements are true about the gas sac organ?
Answer
  • It provides buoyancy
  • May act as an oxygen reserve
  • It evolved from an outpocket in the pharynx
  • It suggests modern bony fish evolved in the oceans

Question 25

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Which of the statements are true about Osteichthyes? a) Gill pouch is covered by an operculum b) Has a spiral valve to increase SA for absorption of nutrients c) Most are oviparous d) They all have electroreceptive organs
Answer
  • a, b and c
  • a and c
  • b and c
  • a and d

Question 26

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What is the coelocanth the only living species of?
Answer
  • Class Actinopterygii
  • Class Dipnoi
  • Class Actinistia

Question 27

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What habitat are most lungfish found?
Answer
  • Stagnant ponds
  • Coral reefs
  • Ocean floor

Question 28

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Which of the following statements are false about ray-finned fish? a) Maxilla is free from head and articulated b) They have reduced scales c) Fins are used like wings to ensure buoyancy d) There are over 20,000 species
Answer
  • a and d
  • c only
  • d only
  • b and c

Question 29

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When you look at the transitional forms, there is a general trend towards tetrapods having less digits.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 30

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Which two of the Osteichthyes are contenders for the closed ancestor to tetrapods?
Answer
  • Lung fish
  • Lobe finned fish
  • Ray finned fish

Question 31

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During which time period did the amphibians dominate?
Answer
  • Cretacous
  • Devonian
  • Carboniferous
  • Permian

Question 32

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Which of the following are adaptations to amphibians that help them reduce water loss in a terrestrial environment?
Answer
  • Chromatophores
  • Keratin
  • Mucous
  • Vascularised dermis

Question 33

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How many chambers does an amphibian heart have?
Answer
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4

Question 34

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Which was the earliest amphibians?
Answer
  • Urodela
  • Anura
  • Apoda
  • Labyrithodonts

Question 35

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What does neoteny mean?
Answer
  • Reaches sexual maturity before adult stage
  • no larval stage is present

Question 36

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Which animals belong to the order anura?
Answer
  • Toad
  • Frog
  • axolotl
  • Salamander

Question 37

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Which of the following are features of Order Anura?
Answer
  • Loss of tail
  • Long trunk
  • Ribs fused to verebrae
  • Blind
  • Legless

Question 38

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Which one of the following are causes of the decline in modern amphibian diversity? a) Habitat loss and fragmentation b) invasive predators c) competition d) disease
Answer
  • a, b and c
  • a, b and d
  • a and b
  • c and d

Question 39

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What is structure C on the labelled diagram?
Image:
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Answer
  • Amnion
  • Allantois
  • Chorion
  • Yolk sac

Question 40

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How many fenestra does a synapsid have?
Answer
  • 0
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3

Question 41

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Which of the following is not a feature of reptiles? a) dry scaly keritinised skin b) external fertilisation of eggs c) Ectothermal d) 3 Chambered heart
Answer
  • a and b
  • c and d
  • b and d
  • b only

Question 42

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When was the radiation that gave rise to synapsids, diapsids and anapsids?
Answer
  • Jurassic
  • Cretacious
  • mesozoic
  • Devonian

Question 43

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When did the radiation of the Archosauria take place?
Answer
  • Jurassic
  • Cretacious
  • mesozoic
  • Devonian

Question 44

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What is the most accepted reason for why the dinosaurs became extinct?
Answer
  • Rise of the mammal
  • Explosion of a volcano
  • Asteroid impact

Question 45

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Which of the following are arguments for dinosaurs being endothermic?
Answer
  • Legs beneath body
  • Surface area to volume ratio
  • Mesozoic was warm
  • Long strides
  • Vascularised bones

Question 46

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How many species are there in order Chelonia?
Answer
  • 25
  • 250
  • 2500
  • 25000

Question 47

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In turtles the upper bony plate is called the carapace and the lower bony plate is called the Plastron.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 48

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What is the name of the organs found in the roof of a snakes mouth that helps allows it to smell?
Answer
  • Pit organs
  • Jacobson's organs
  • Olfactory bulb organs
  • Pacinian corpuscles

Question 49

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Which of the following is most closely related to the dinosaurs?
Answer
  • Order Crocodilia
  • Order Squamata
  • Order Chelonia
  • Class Aves

Question 50

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Which of the following is not a feature of Aves?
Answer
  • Ectothermy
  • Teeth
  • Keratin bill
  • Colour vision
  • Reduced organs
  • aerofoil shaped wing

Question 51

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How many fingers does a bird have?
Answer
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Question 52

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Down feathers have barbs.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 53

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Which lacks a keel?
Answer
  • Ratites
  • Carinates

Question 54

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20% of Carinates are Passeriformes.
Answer
  • True
  • False
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