Discover the Fascinating World of Animal Evolution

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What is the major difference between Parazoa and Eumetazoa?

  • Parazoa includes only sponges, while Eumetazoa includes animals with true tissues (correct)
  • Parazoa includes animals with bilateral symmetry, while Eumetazoa includes animals with radial symmetry
  • Parazoa includes animals with true tissues, while Eumetazoa includes only sponges
  • Parazoa includes animals with radial symmetry, while Eumetazoa includes animals with bilateral symmetry

Which group of animals is organized around a central axis and lacks well-developed muscles?

  • Radial animals (correct)
  • Parazoa
  • Bilateral animals
  • Eumetazoa

What is the probable ancestral organism of animals according to most zoologists?

  • Eumetazoa
  • Choanoflagellate (correct)
  • Bilateral animals
  • Porifera

What is the significance of the Parazoa-Eumetazoa split in the animal kingdom?

<p>It marks the evolution of true tissues in some animals (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is a characteristic of radial animals?

<p>They are usually sessile (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the basis for constructing phylogenetic trees in zoology?

<p>All of the above (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which fossil site(s) support(s) the evidence of a tremendous radiation of animals at the beginning of the Cambrian period?

<p>Both Greenland and the Yunnan region of China (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What were the ecological causes that may have sparked the Cambrian Explosion?

<p>Changes in predator-prey relationships and protective shells (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the significance of the Cambrian Explosion?

<p>It was a time of tremendous radiation of animals with hard, mineralized skeletons (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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