PHYLOGENY (USABO) TEST
QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
Your Exam Plug
, Chytridiomycota (chytrids) - Answer: flagellated spores; fungi
Zygomycota (zygomycetes) - Answer: resistant zygosporangium as sexual stage; fungi
Glomeromycota (arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi) - Answer: arbuscular mycorrhizae formed with plants
Ascomycota (ascomycetes) - Answer: sexual spores (ascospores) borne internally in sacs called asci; vast
numbers of asexual spores (conidia) produced; fungi
Basidiomycota (basidiomycetes) - Answer: elaborate fruiting body (basidiocarp) containing many basidia
that produce sexual spores (basidiospores)
Metazoa - Answer: clade of all monophyletic animals
Eumetazoa - Answer: clade of animals with tissues; all animals except for porifera
Bilateria - Answer: clade of animals with bilaterial symmetry and the presence of three prominent germ
layers
Deuterostomia - Answer: hemichordata; echinodermata; chordata
Ecdysozoa - Answer: nematoda and arthropoda -- secrete exoskelets and molts (ecdysis)
Lophotrochozoa - Answer: platyhelminthes; syndermata; ectoprocta; brachiopoda; mollusca; annelids --
crown of ciliated tentacles that function in feeding; trochophore larva stage
Acoela - Answer: Neither Protostomy or Deuterostomy fate
Porifera - Answer: lack tissues; have choanocytes
QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
Your Exam Plug
, Chytridiomycota (chytrids) - Answer: flagellated spores; fungi
Zygomycota (zygomycetes) - Answer: resistant zygosporangium as sexual stage; fungi
Glomeromycota (arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi) - Answer: arbuscular mycorrhizae formed with plants
Ascomycota (ascomycetes) - Answer: sexual spores (ascospores) borne internally in sacs called asci; vast
numbers of asexual spores (conidia) produced; fungi
Basidiomycota (basidiomycetes) - Answer: elaborate fruiting body (basidiocarp) containing many basidia
that produce sexual spores (basidiospores)
Metazoa - Answer: clade of all monophyletic animals
Eumetazoa - Answer: clade of animals with tissues; all animals except for porifera
Bilateria - Answer: clade of animals with bilaterial symmetry and the presence of three prominent germ
layers
Deuterostomia - Answer: hemichordata; echinodermata; chordata
Ecdysozoa - Answer: nematoda and arthropoda -- secrete exoskelets and molts (ecdysis)
Lophotrochozoa - Answer: platyhelminthes; syndermata; ectoprocta; brachiopoda; mollusca; annelids --
crown of ciliated tentacles that function in feeding; trochophore larva stage
Acoela - Answer: Neither Protostomy or Deuterostomy fate
Porifera - Answer: lack tissues; have choanocytes
