Zoology MCQ

In classical conditioning, a stimulus is used to provoke or elicit a response that __________.

Answer

Correct Answer: It didn't elicit naturally before conditioning occurred

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Parasitic infections are a primary cause of ________ in many regions of the globe.

Answer

Correct Answer: Iron-deficiency anemia

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_____ means "jointed feet."

Answer

Correct Answer: Arthropoda

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An argument can be made that habituation is not a form of learning, because ___________.

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Correct Answer: It can disappear immediately with slight changes in the stimulus

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Among animals, sponges are unique in that they _____.

Answer

Correct Answer: Lack true tissues

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The use of biofeedback to monitor and control brain wave activity is known as ________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Neurofeedback

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Tiktaalik is an example of a transitional form linking __________ to ancestral __________.

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Correct Answer: Amphibians; fish

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The phylum of radiata you will be observing today are the _______.

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Correct Answer: Cnidaria

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The fossil called lucy is a member of the species ___, which lived about 3.18 million years ago.

Answer

Correct Answer: Australopithecus afarensis

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Sharks have ________________ skeletons, whereas salmon have _______________ skeletons.

Answer

Correct Answer: Cartilaginous; bony

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Nekton include all animals that _____.

Answer

Correct Answer: Move independently of ocean currents

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Modal action patterns are elicited or induced by events called __________.

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Correct Answer: Releasers

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Gastrulation is the process that directly forms the _____. see concept 32.3 (page 679)

Answer

Correct Answer: Primary germ layers

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The term nettles, hives, or ______________ refers to a rash that may be characterized by wheals.

Answer

Correct Answer: Urticaria

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Rescorla and wagner introduced a(n) _____ component to classical conditioning.

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Correct Answer: Cognitive

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During spermatogenesis, the secondary spermatocyte develops into a ________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Spermatozoan.

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B. f. skinner believed that _____ reinforcement was the best way to shape desirable behavior.

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Correct Answer: Positive

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The central part of the brain is called_______.

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Correct Answer: Midbrain

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Negative reinforcement will _____ a behavior.

Answer

Correct Answer: Increase

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When washing the dishes, you most likely used an animal from the _____ phylum.

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Correct Answer: Porifera

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We will be focusing on ____ phyla within kingdom fungi.

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Correct Answer: 3

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We associate the name ________ most closely with classical conditioning.

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Correct Answer: Ivan Pavlov.

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Tunicates resemble a _____ on the sea floor.

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Correct Answer: Sac

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Thorndike's law of effect is most similar to _____'s concept of _____.

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Correct Answer: Skinner; positive reinforcement

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The two lineages of the phylum platyhelminthes are the ________ and the ________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Catenulida; Rhabditophora

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The reinforcement of successive approximations of a desired behavior is called ___________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Shaping

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The proglottids of a tapeworm contain an elaborate __________ system.

Answer

Correct Answer: Reproductive

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The last common ancestor of all animals was probably a _____.

Answer

Correct Answer: Flagellated protist.

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The group whose members are multicellular, heterotrophic and lack cell walls is called ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Metazoa

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Planarians lack dedicated respiratory and circulatory systems because _____.

Answer

Correct Answer: None of their cells are far removed from the gastrovascular cavity or from ...

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Nearly all ______ are aquatic.

Answer

Correct Answer: Crustaceans

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Monkeys underwent a massive__________in the pliocene and pleistocene.

Answer

Correct Answer: Adaptive radiation.

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Mollusks' group of organs is called a _____. visceral system visceral mass water vascular system

Answer

Correct Answer: Visceral mas

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In operant conditioning, _____ means performing a reinforced behavior in a different situation.

Answer

Correct Answer: Generalization

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In ____________, the blastopore becomes the anus of the adult.

Answer

Correct Answer: Dueterostome

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Except for _____, birds are the only known species that can fly.

Answer

Correct Answer: Bats

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Consequences are a critical element in _____ conditioning.

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Correct Answer: Operant

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Conditioning seldom occurs when a(n) _____ repeatedly comes before a(n) _____.

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Correct Answer: Unconditioned stimulus (US); conditioned stimulus (CS)

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Bandura conducted a classic study known as the "bobo" doll study. the term bobo refers to ________.

Answer

Correct Answer: The type of inflatable doll that was used in the study.

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Arthropod exoskeletons and mollusk shells both _____.

Answer

Correct Answer: Help retain moisture in terrestrial habitats

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Animal species that are threatened by extinction are primarily in the phylum ________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Mollusca

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All animals can trace their lineage to a common ancestor that lived in the _____.

Answer

Correct Answer: Neoproterozoic era

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_________, account for ________ of all known animal species.

Answer

Correct Answer: Invertebrates, animals without a backbone; 95%

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Swim bladders ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Help bony fish maintain buoyancy

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The case of clever hans served to ____.

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Correct Answer: ​illustrate the importance of objective,experimental study of animal behavior with proper control conditions

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The ____ are very fast predators that feed by running down their prey.

Answer

Correct Answer: Whiptails

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Countercurrent exchange in the fish gill helps to maximize _____.

Answer

Correct Answer: Diffusion.

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Young crickets in the early stages of incomplete metamorphosis resemble _____.

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Correct Answer: Young grasshoppers

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With the exception of some sponges, all animals are _____.

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Correct Answer: Heterotrophs

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When using terms such as coelomates and pseudocoelomates, a grade is _________.

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Correct Answer: A group whose members share key biological features

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The two distinguishing features of vertebrates are the presence of _____.

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Correct Answer: A skull and backbone

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The subphylum vertebrata includes all of the following except ___________________________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Lancelots

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The scaly skin of a snake is ____________ to the skin of a lizard.

Answer

Correct Answer: Homologus

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The natural differences in the ranges of wild tigers and lions is an example of ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: A pre-zygotic barrier

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The human genome project enables researchers to _____.

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Correct Answer: Pinpoint disease-causing genes and possibly prevent or treat them

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The class mammalia contains the only animals that _____.

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Correct Answer: All of the above

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The choanocyte of a sponge and the nematocyst of a cnidarian both function in __________.

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Correct Answer: Obtaining food

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The animal phylum most like the protists that gave rise to the animal kingdom is _____.

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Correct Answer: Porifera

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The ________ is the middle matter of a sponge and is composed of a ________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Mesohyl; gelatinous matrix

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The ________ is a flagellated cell that sweeps water through a sponge's body.

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Correct Answer: Choanocyte

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The _______ in earthworms is/are composed of fused segments involved in reproduction.

Answer

Correct Answer: Clitellum.

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Species with backbones represent about ______ of the total species in the animal kingdom.

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Correct Answer: 4%

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Some species of rotifers undergo parthenogenesis, which means that __________.

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Simple animals can exchange gases directly with the environment by ______.

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Correct Answer: Diffusion

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Members of the phylum mollusca _____.

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Correct Answer: Are soft-bodied and often covered by a shell

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In arthropods, molting is necessary because _____.

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Correct Answer: The chitinous exoskeleton cannot grow.

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In animals, meiosis __________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Produces four gamete cells

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In animals, individual cells are grouped into ________.

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Correct Answer: Tissues

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During typical earthworm reproduction __________.

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Correct Answer: Hermaphroditic individuals exchange sperm

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Arboreal animals are animals that _______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Live in trees

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A frog has ______ digits on each forelimb, and ________ digits on each hindlimb.

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Correct Answer: 4; 5

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______ were the first vertebrates to live on land and they evolved from _____.

Answer

Correct Answer: Amphibians; fish

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Flatworms (platyhelminthes) are ________ and typically have ________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Bilaterally symmetrical . . . a gastrovascular cavity with one opening

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In the ""little albert"" study, the fear-producing stimulus used as a ucs was the ________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Loud noise

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Changing prejudice through principles of pavlovian conditioning is called __________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Evaluative conditioning

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An ovum bursts from one of a woman?s two __________ and is drawn into one of two __________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Ovaries; fallopian tubes

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The radial symmetry of adult echinoderms could best be described as ________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Pentaradial

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An important example of conditioned taste aversions might be ________.

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Correct Answer: Chemotherapy patients losing their appetites for food served around the same time they had their treatments, farmers leaving out sheep meat laced with a nauseating substance for coyotes to find in hopes of teaching them not to eat sheep, birds avoiding insects that look like insects that made them sick

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The bottom of a dog's hind foot is the _______ surface.

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Correct Answer: Plantar

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Radially symmetric animals tend to be __________, while bilaterally symmetric animals ___________.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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In operant conditioning, a punishment is a consequence that _____.

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Correct Answer: Decreases the likelihood that a behavior will occur

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In classical conditioning, organisms learn the association between two _____.

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Correct Answer: Motives

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Polychaetes are the only annelids to ______________________.

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Correct Answer: Out of the three classes that have a trochophore stage.

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Flatworms have layers of tissue that surround the gut and organs in one solid body. they are _____.

Answer

Correct Answer: Acoelomates

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Continuous reinforcement in operant conditioning _____.

Answer

Correct Answer: Is the type of reinforcement in which organisms learn rapidly

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________ refers to the use of operant conditioning principles to change human behavior.

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Correct Answer: Applied Behavior Analysis

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Some of the first organisms to show cephalization were _____.

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Correct Answer: Flatworms

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Chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas have a part of the brain that is ____.

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Correct Answer: Analogous to the human Broca's area

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Cadherins are __________.

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Correct Answer: Proteins that play key roles in how animal cells attach to one another

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Sponges _____.

Answer

Correct Answer: Have larvae which are motile and move via the motion of cilia

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Cnidaria have both _____.

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Correct Answer: Stinging cells and a gastrovascular cavity

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Classical conditioning applies to _____ and involves associations between _____.

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Correct Answer: Involuntary; stimuli

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Crayfish, shrimp, lobsters, and crabs are examples of ______________________.

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Correct Answer: Decapods

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The less common type of plant is the _____.

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Correct Answer: Hydrophytes

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Among the invertebrate phyla, phylum arthropoda is unique in possessing members that have _____

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Correct Answer: Wings

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Metamorphosis is ______.

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Correct Answer: A type of life cycle

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The phyla porifera, cnidaria, and ctenophora are ________.

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Correct Answer: The most ancient of all animal lineages

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The author of your text believes that learning is an evolved mechanism for coping with __________.

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Correct Answer: Change/a changing environment

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Of all the animal phyla, __________ have the simplest anatomy..

Answer

Correct Answer: Sponges

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Fleas and dogs are in a symbiotic relationship called _____

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Correct Answer: Parasitic kind.

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Feedback regulation includes __________

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Correct Answer: Both positive feedback

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An organism that exhibits cephalization probably also _____

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Correct Answer: Has bilateral symmetry

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When standing, moving toward the cranium is moving in __________ direction.

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Correct Answer: A superior

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Bacterial binary fission results in ________ growth.

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Correct Answer: Bacteria

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Amoebas are able to protect themselves from unfavorable conditions by forming a _____.

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Correct Answer: Cyst

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Spiders' appendages include the walking legs, the chelicerae, and the _____________.

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Correct Answer: Pedipalps

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The difference between protostomes and deuterostomes is _____

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Correct Answer: Protostomes develop a mouth first and then an anus

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The three major clades of bilaterian animals are the __________.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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The transmission first triggers the _____.

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Correct Answer: Opening of voltage-gated sodium channels and the diffusion of sodium ions into the neuron

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The substance that makes up the nematode cuticle is ________.

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Correct Answer: Collagen

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The protist group that is most closely related to animals is a _________.

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Correct Answer: Choanoflagellate

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Pearl earrings come from _____.

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Correct Answer: Mollusks

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Negative reinforcement in operant conditioning _____.

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Correct Answer: Has nothing to do with good and bad behavior

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Most chordates are ________.

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Correct Answer: Vertebrates

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Monkeys underwent massive _______ in the pliocene and pleistocene.

Answer

Correct Answer: Adaptive radiation

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Mollusks group of organs is called a _____

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Correct Answer: Visceral mass

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In amphibians, gases are exchanged through the gills, lungs, and/or _______________.

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Correct Answer: Skin

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If the blastopore does not form, ________.

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Correct Answer: The archenteron would not form

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Herd animals typically live in a ________ distribution pattern.

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Correct Answer: Clumped

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Fossils of the earliest tetrapods should _____.

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Correct Answer: Indicate limited adaptation to life on land

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Females are typically larger and more ornamented than males where _____ occurs.

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Correct Answer: Polyandry

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Ectoprocts and brachiopods are collectively referred to as __________.

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Correct Answer: Lophophorates

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During embryological development, the anus forms before the mouth in _____.

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Correct Answer: Humans

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Clamworms, members of errantia, use their parapodia for ___________.

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Correct Answer: All of the above

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Chordate pharyngeal slits appear to have functioned first as _____.

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Correct Answer: Suspension-feeding devices.

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Cephalopods are the only molluscs __________.

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Correct Answer: With a closed circulatory system.

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Cartilaginous fish conduct _____

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Correct Answer: Internal fertilization

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Both flatworms and roundworms have a body type called _____.

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Correct Answer: Bilaterally symmetrical

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Bf skinner discounted the role of _____ in learning.

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Correct Answer: Cognitive processes or punishment

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Arthropod exoskeletons and mollusc shells both ________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Help retain moisture in terrestrial habitats

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All arthropods _____.

Answer

Correct Answer: All of these

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A true coelom is ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Formed when a zygote develops into a blastula

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The mature follicle is called:

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Correct Answer: Grafian follicle

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A star fish possesses:

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Correct Answer: A calcareous endoskeleton

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Sleeping sickness is caused by:

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Correct Answer: Trypnosoma

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The abnormal, unlimited and uncontrolled cell division causes:

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Correct Answer: Cancer

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Ribosomes are orginated in:

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Correct Answer: Nucleolus

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The secondry sexul characters of male mammals are under the direct control of:

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Correct Answer: Testosterone

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The compound that help to prevent change in pH of a solution when an acid of alkali is added is c/a:

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Correct Answer: Buffers

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Golgi bodies in cells appear to function in:

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Correct Answer: Secration

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When mitosis has been completed , the quantity of DNA in each daughter cell nucleus will be:

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Correct Answer: Half as much as in the parent nucleus

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Progesterone in mammals stimulates the:

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Correct Answer: Development of the placenta

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Which of one the following is present in prokeryotic cell:

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Correct Answer: Ribosomes

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Malaria fever is caused by Protozoan Parasite:

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Correct Answer: Plasmodium

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Ribosomes are not assosiated with:

Answer

Correct Answer: Golgy apparatus

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Oligochaetes do, but polychaetes do not ,possess:

Answer

Correct Answer: Subneural blood vassels

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Life cycle of plasmodium consict of two hosts:

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Correct Answer: Man and mosquito

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Ovulation is the process by which:

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Correct Answer: An egg is ejected from the overy

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Which of the following group does not contain animals which are parasite in or on man:

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Correct Answer: Coelenterata

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The word Bios means:

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Correct Answer: Life

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Double stranded RNA is:

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Correct Answer: Present in mammalian virus

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Which of the following factors affect the enzyme activity?

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Correct Answer: All

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A coelom is _____

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Correct Answer: A cavity filled with fluid

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_________ is seen in some new world monkeys, but not in any old world monkeys.

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Correct Answer: A prehensile tail

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_________ are characteristic of jellies.

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Correct Answer: Cnidocytes

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______ are the most diverse group of arthropods.

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Correct Answer: Insects

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