BIL 160 VAN DYKEN FINAL EXAM REVIEW
EXAMS 1–4 2026 EDITION COMPLETE
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS WITH DETAILED RATIONALES
COMPREHENSIVE BIOLOGY STUDY GUIDE
42. Which of these groups of organisms are amniotes?
Answers:
A) amphibians
B) fishes
C) turtles
D) lungfish - CORRECT ANSWER -Selected Answer:
C) turtles
26. Which one of these mollusc groups is classified as suspension (i.e.,
filter) feeders?
Answers:
A) bivalves
B) gastropods
C) sponges
,D) cephalopods - CORRECT ANSWER -Selected Answer:
A) bivalves
35. In vertebrates, the earliest known mineralized structures were
associated with body parts involved in which of the following processes?
Answers:
A) feeding
B) locomotion
C) defense
D) respiration - CORRECT ANSWER -Selected Answer:
A) feeding
23. Which of the following statements describes how healthy corals appear
brightly colored?
Answers:
A) they secrete colorful pigments to attract mates
B) they host symbionts with colorful photosynthetic pigments
C) they build their skeletons from colorful minerals
D) they secrete colorful pigments to protect themselves from ultraviolet
light - CORRECT ANSWER -Selected Answer: B) they host symbionts with
colorful photosynthetic pigments
Which of the following characteristics is unique to animals?
,Answers:
A) the structural carbohydrate, chitin
B) nervous system signal conduction
C) heterotrophy
D) flagellated gametes - CORRECT ANSWER -Selected Answer:
B) nervous system signal conduction
30. Which of the following statements is correct with respect to the
evolutionary relationship between chordates and invertebrates?
Answers:
A) Chordates are most closely related to arthropods.
B) Chordates evolved from echinoderms.
C) Chordates are more closely related to echinoderms than to arthropods.
D) Chordates are more closely related to sponges than to sea stars -
CORRECT ANSWER -Selected Answer: C) Chordates are more closely related
to echinoderms than to arthropods.
37. Which of the following organisms is considered the most recent
common ancestor of living tetrapods?
Answers:
A) a sturdy-finned, shallow-water lobe-fin whose appendages had skeletal
supports similar to those of terrestrial vertebrates
B) an armored, jawed placoderm with two pairs of appendages
, C) an early ray-finned fish that developed bony skeletal supports in its
paired fins
D) an anapsid turtle - CORRECT ANSWER -Selected Answer:
A) a sturdy-finned, shallow-water lobe-fin whose appendages had skeletal
supports similar to those of terrestrial vertebrates
10. All fungi are ________.
Answers:
A) symbiotic
B) heterotrophic
C) flagellated
D) dikaryonic - CORRECT ANSWER -Selected Answer: B) heterotrophic
40. Which of the following characteristics evolved independently in
mammals and birds?
Answers:
A) amniotic eggs
B) jaws
C) bone
D) endothermy - CORRECT ANSWER -Selected Answer: D) endothermy
32. Which of the following combinations of phylum and description is
incorrect?
EXAMS 1–4 2026 EDITION COMPLETE
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS WITH DETAILED RATIONALES
COMPREHENSIVE BIOLOGY STUDY GUIDE
42. Which of these groups of organisms are amniotes?
Answers:
A) amphibians
B) fishes
C) turtles
D) lungfish - CORRECT ANSWER -Selected Answer:
C) turtles
26. Which one of these mollusc groups is classified as suspension (i.e.,
filter) feeders?
Answers:
A) bivalves
B) gastropods
C) sponges
,D) cephalopods - CORRECT ANSWER -Selected Answer:
A) bivalves
35. In vertebrates, the earliest known mineralized structures were
associated with body parts involved in which of the following processes?
Answers:
A) feeding
B) locomotion
C) defense
D) respiration - CORRECT ANSWER -Selected Answer:
A) feeding
23. Which of the following statements describes how healthy corals appear
brightly colored?
Answers:
A) they secrete colorful pigments to attract mates
B) they host symbionts with colorful photosynthetic pigments
C) they build their skeletons from colorful minerals
D) they secrete colorful pigments to protect themselves from ultraviolet
light - CORRECT ANSWER -Selected Answer: B) they host symbionts with
colorful photosynthetic pigments
Which of the following characteristics is unique to animals?
,Answers:
A) the structural carbohydrate, chitin
B) nervous system signal conduction
C) heterotrophy
D) flagellated gametes - CORRECT ANSWER -Selected Answer:
B) nervous system signal conduction
30. Which of the following statements is correct with respect to the
evolutionary relationship between chordates and invertebrates?
Answers:
A) Chordates are most closely related to arthropods.
B) Chordates evolved from echinoderms.
C) Chordates are more closely related to echinoderms than to arthropods.
D) Chordates are more closely related to sponges than to sea stars -
CORRECT ANSWER -Selected Answer: C) Chordates are more closely related
to echinoderms than to arthropods.
37. Which of the following organisms is considered the most recent
common ancestor of living tetrapods?
Answers:
A) a sturdy-finned, shallow-water lobe-fin whose appendages had skeletal
supports similar to those of terrestrial vertebrates
B) an armored, jawed placoderm with two pairs of appendages
, C) an early ray-finned fish that developed bony skeletal supports in its
paired fins
D) an anapsid turtle - CORRECT ANSWER -Selected Answer:
A) a sturdy-finned, shallow-water lobe-fin whose appendages had skeletal
supports similar to those of terrestrial vertebrates
10. All fungi are ________.
Answers:
A) symbiotic
B) heterotrophic
C) flagellated
D) dikaryonic - CORRECT ANSWER -Selected Answer: B) heterotrophic
40. Which of the following characteristics evolved independently in
mammals and birds?
Answers:
A) amniotic eggs
B) jaws
C) bone
D) endothermy - CORRECT ANSWER -Selected Answer: D) endothermy
32. Which of the following combinations of phylum and description is
incorrect?
