REVIEW & REHEARSE 11 ANIMAL DIVERSIFICATION
REVIEW & REHEARSE 11 ANIMAL DIVERSIFICATION
Q
Which of the following is not a characteristic of all animals?
- a) They are able to move at some point in their life.
- b) They get their energy by eating other organisms.
- c) They are multicellular.
- d) They are sexually reproducing at some point in their life cycle.
- e) All of the above are characteristics of all animals.
The type of adaptation most likely to occur over evolutionary time is one that:
- a) increases the physiological complexity and sophistication of the individuals in a population.
- b) increases the physiological simplicity of the individuals in a population.
- c) causes the individuals in a population to have greater intelligence.
- d) causes the individuals in a population to more closely resemble humans.
- e) causes the individuals in a population to more efficiently reproduce in the environment in which they live.
The lineage that first separated from the common ancestor of all animals and retains many of those primitive features to this day, includes which of the following modern organisms?
- a) the grasshopper
- b) the jellyfish
- c) the sponge
- d) the earthworm
- e) the sea turtle
