Practice Exam 3
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Iowa State University / Leader: / Tyler
Course: / Biology 211 (3)
Instructor: / Rice
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26. What is developmental biology?

a) The study of processes from a single cell to a multicellular organism

b) The study of how organisms are constructed

c) The study of embryonic growth

d) The study of developmental mutations

e) All of the above

28. The fate of the blastopore distinguishes between Protostomes in which it becomes the______, and Deuterostomes in which it becomes the______.

a) mouth, coelom

b) anus, mouth

c) coelom, archenteron

d) mouth, anus

e) none of the above

29. At which developmental stage should one be able to first distinguish a protostome embryo from a deuterostome embryo?

a) cleavage

b) metamorphosis

c) gastrulation

d) fertilization

e) coelom formation

31. Which of the following is a characteristic found only in animals?

a) Multicellular

b) Cell walls of cellulose

c) Absorptive nutrition

d) proteins hold cells together

e) Heterotrophs

34. What is the function of a coelom?

a) The fluid-filled cavity cushions and protects the organs.

b) It is a place for muscle attachment.

c) It is where digestion occurs.

d) It is where fertilization occurs.

e) All of the above are correct

37. Pseudocoelomates are animals that _____.

a) do not have a brain

b) do not have mesoderm tissue

c) have protostome development

d) have a coelom that is not completely lined with mesoderm

e) have a solid body without a cavity

40. ______is a process that rearranges the developing embryo to form germ layers.

a) Gastrulation

b) Cleavage

c) Mitosis

d) Blastulation

e) Blastopore

41. ______is an important developmental process, when a single-cell zygote undergoes mitotic cell division to become multicellular.

a) Fertilization

b) Gastrulation

c) Cleavage

d) Meiosis

e) Blastulation

43. The Porifera have choanocytes, a unique cell type in Kingdom Animalia. Which protist is structurally similar to choanocytes?

a) dinoflagellates

b) choanoflagellates

c) apicomplexans

d) euglena

e) diatoms

44. The common ancestor of all animals was probably a ______.

a) bacterium

b) Archea

c) fungus

d) protist

e) Bryophyte

47. You are trying to identify an organism. It is an animal, but it does not have nerve or muscle tissue. It is neither diploblastic nor triploblastic. It is probably a __.

a) comb jelly

b) sponge

c) flatworm

d) nematode

e) jellyfish

50. The characteristic of Cnidaria that distinguishes it from all other animal phyla is ____.

a) a gastrovascular cavity

b) three germ layers

c) true tissues

d) radial symmetry

e) hydrostatic skeleton

51. All of the following are characteristics of the phylum Cnidaria except ___.

a) a gastrovascular cavity

b) a polyp stage

c) a medusa stage

d) cnidocytes

e) a pseudocoelom

52. The ______is a cell type found only in Cnidaria and is used to capture prey.

a) blastocyst

b) cnidocyte

c) osculum

d) choanocyte

e) amoebocyte

54. The ______is a cell type found only in Porifera and is used to engulf food particles by phagocytosis.

a) blastocyst

b) cnidocyte

c) osculum

d) choanocyte

e) amoebocyte

55. A ______is used for digestion, but has only a single opening.

a) gastrovascular cavity

b) intestine

c) gut

d) pharynx

e) B and C are correct