INTRODUCTION TO ANIMAL CLASSIFICATION TEST
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1) What types of organisms exist in the Kingdom Prokaryota?
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2) What characteristics does an animal have if they are in the Kingdom Protista?
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3) What does the word saprophyte mean?
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4) What is photosynthesis?
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5) Differentiate between an organism that is heterotrophic versus autotrophic.
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6) How does an invertebrate differ to a vertebrate? Give an example.
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7) Describe how red water fever is caused?
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8) What are pseudopodia?
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9) Bacteria reproduce by ______
10) Name the three classes in the flatworm phylum and give an example of an organism in that class.
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11) Name three ways of controlling the mud snail population
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12) Dictylocaulus and Heterodera are common nematodes of agricultural importance. What are their common names.
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13) What does the term hermaphrodite stand for?
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14) What are Chaetae used for?
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15) Why are earthworms so important to agriculture?
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16) What is the Latin name for the Mud Snail?
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17) Why is a cuticle so important to organism such as the liver fluke?
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18) Name the body parts of an insect and of a spider.
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19) Name the stages of the life cycle of an insect.
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20) What is a parasite?
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21) Differentiate between homoeothermic and poikilothermic?
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22) What is meant by an ungulate? Give an example?
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23) What class are slugs and snails members of?
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24) Insects under go ecdyses. Explain what is meant by this term.
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25) The (1) wireworm and (2) the leatherjacket are the larvae of what insects?
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26) Differentiate between complete and incomplete metamorphosis. Give an example of each.
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27) What is a cephalothorax?
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28) What is the Latin name for the earthworm?
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29) What characteristics would a member of Class Aves demonstrate?
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30) Differentiate between a ruminant and a monogastric.
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31) Describe the Life cycle of Fasciola hepatica
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32) Name the 7 phylum’s, 7 characteristics and 7 examples:
Phylum’s / Characteristic /Example
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