1) 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 reproducing sexually at some point in their life cycle.
E. All of the above are characteristics of all animals.
D.They are reproducing sexually at some point in their life cycle.

2)The mollusk's matle is used primarily for:

A. feeding
B. gas exchange
C. producing the shell
D. excretion
E. reproduction
C. producing the shell

3)Which is the only animal phylum to have more than a million described species?
A. chordates
B. arthropods
C. flatworms
D. nematodes
E. mollusks
B. arthropods

4)Which of these animals is a tetrapod that does not produce amniotic eggs?
A. salamander
B. human
C. monkey
D elephant
E. python
A. salamander

5)Why is the amniotic egg considered a key evolutionary innovation?

A. it prohibits textural fertilization, thereby facilitating the evolutionary innovation
of internal fertilization
B. it has an unbreakable shell
C. it greatly increases the likelihood of survival of the eggs in a terrestrial
environment
D. it enabled eggs to float in an aquatic medium
E. it extends the time of embryonic development
C. it enables eggs to float in an aquatic medium

6)Which of the following is NOT an important feature in distinguishing animals

from each other?
A. presence and cellular arrangement of tissues
B. growth of skeletal elements
C. body symmetry
D. development of the gut
E. method of locomotion (movement)
E. method of locomotion (movement)

7)Which of the following is an animal with rigid bones, jaws, and a swim bladder?
A. Hagfish
B. Sharks
C. Lobe-finned fish
D. Lampreys
E. Salmon
E. Salmon

8)Which of the following is true of ALL animals?

A. They reproduce asexually.
B. They are made up of single and multicellular individuals.
C. They have sense organs like eyes and ears.
D. They are capable of movement at some stage of their life cycle.
E. They can sustain themselves exclusively by photosynthesis.
E. They are capable of movement at some stage of their life cycle.

9)According to the fossil record, the first modern humans appeared approximately:
A. 190 million years ago.
B. 100,000 years ago.
C. 1 million years ago.
D. 6,000 years ago.
E. 6 million years ago.
B. 100,000 years ago.

10)Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A.More than 96% of the animal kingdom is made up of invertebrates.
B. Invertebrates are unique because they are a monophyletic group.
C. Arthropods are the closest relatives of chordates.
D. Roughly half of the invertebrates are protostomes and the other half are
deuterostomes.
E. Echinoderms are similar to vertebrates in that they are protostomes.
A. More than 96% of the animal kingdom is made up of invertebrates.

11)Marsupials are thought to be most closely related to:

A. placental mammals.
B. monotremes.
C. reptiles.
D. birds.
E. amphibians.
A. placental mammals.

12)The most primitive group of animals that had lungs were the:
A. amphibians.
B. ray-finned fish.
C. reptiles.
D. birds.
E. tunicates.
A. amphibians.

13)Which of the following are chordates?

A. Frogs
B. Grasshopper
C. Fish
D. All of the above
E. Only the first and third choices are correct.
E. Only the first and third choices are correct.

14)Birds have scaly feet and lay amniotic eggs. This supports the idea that:
A. reptiles evolved from amphibians.
B. birds are the only creatures to ever have feathers.
C. birds are endothermic.
D. birds evolved from reptiles.
E. None of the above.
D. birds evolved from reptiles.

15)Sponges are:
A. hermaphrodites.
B. asexual.
C. sessile.
D. members of phylum Porifera.
E. All of the above.
E. All of the above.

16)What kind of molecule is thought to have been the first genetic material?
A. RNA
B. DNA
C. TRNA
D. ALL OF THE ABOVE
A. RNA

17)The classification rank that includes genera but not orders is:
A.Species
B. Class
C. Family
D. Organization
C. Family

18)Prokaryotes are classified into _____ domains.

A. 1
B. 4
C. 4
D. 2
D.2

19)Sexually reproducing
A. Is a characteristic of all animals
B. Is only found in mammals
C. Is not a characteristic of all animals
D. All of the above
A. Is not a characteristic of all animals.

20)The taxonomic rank that includes genera but not orders is:
A. Genus
B. Family
C. Order
D. Kingdom
B. Family