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1

Some descendants of Precambrian acoelomate organisms evolved a more elegant arrangement for a body cavity: a fluid-filled space within the mesoderm, called the coelom. A true coelom means that the space was lined with mesoderm and that mesodermal membranes, the mesenteries, suspended the organs.
A)True
B)False
2

Which of the following groups has an obvious trochophore larval stage?
A)Hirudinea
B)Polychaete annelids
C)Freshwater Bivalvia
D)A, B, and C have trochophore larvae
E)Only B and C have trochophore larvae
3

One of the first groups to evolve a true coelom, which was a major step in the evolution of larger and more complex forms was the...
A)Vertebrates
B)Mollusca
C)Annelida
D)Platyhelminthes
E)None of the above is correct
4

Which of the following is NOT true about the Mollusca?
A)They are all protostomes
B)They all have an "open" circulatory system
C)They all have a muscular foot or modified foot of tentacles and arms
D)They all have a mantle
E)All of the above are correct
5

The uniquely derived rasping tongue of the Gastropoda is called the...
A)Radula
B)Odontophore
C)Mastax
D)Buccal cavity
E)None of the above is correct
6

Which of the following is found in the shell secreted by the mantle of the Bivalvia?
A)Periostracum (outer horny layer, composed of conchiolin-quinone-tanned protein)
B)Prismatic layer (prisms of calcium carbonate in a protein matrix)
C)Nacreous layer (secreted in thin, shiny layers by the mantle)
D)All of the above are found in Bivalvia shells
E)None of the above is correct
7

Which of the following is NOT a class of the Phylum Mollusca?
A)Monoplacophora
B)Polyplacophora
C)Scaphopoda
D)Gastropoda
E)Entoprocta
8

Which of the following is mismatched?
A)Gastropoda-snails, slugs, nudibranchs, etc.
B)Bivalves-clams, mussels, etc.
C)Scaphopoda-tusk or tooth shells
D)Cephalopoda-"head-foot"
E)All of the above are correct
9

Of all the Mollusca, only gastropods undergo torsion.
A)True
B)False
10

Where would you place a creature that has the following characters: lives in dense beds in the intertidal zone; moves by means of "clapping" two valves together with strong adductor muscles; has multiple eyes; shell with an umbo?
A)Bivalvia
B)Pulmonata
C)Gastropoda
D)Amphineura
E)Polyplacophora
11

The coelom of Mollusca is reduced to a partial coelom around the gonads, the kidneys, and the heart (the pericardial membrane).
A)True
B)False
12

What structures sweep water into the gill chambers before it is passed up water tubes to the suprabranchial chambers and out the excurrent aperture?
A)Flagella
B)Cilia
C)Mitochondria
D)Contractile vacuoles
E)None of the above is correct
13

A potentially disastrous ecological event occurred when ____________were introduced into the Great Lakes.
A)Leeches
B)Boring clams
C)Zebra mussels
D)Shipworms
E)Jumbo Umbo clams
14

The cephalopods are renowned for their amazing invertebrate intelligence.
A)True
B)False
15

The shell of the multi-chambered Nautilus is coiled but is quite different from the shell of a gastropod.
A)True
B)False
16

In the squids, most of the shell has disappeared, leaving only a thin, horny strip called the pencil.
A)True
B)False
17

The Mollusca represent one of the greatest adaptive radiations of any animal phylum.
A)True
B)False
18

There is strong embryological evidence that the Mollusca share a common ancestor with the polychaete annelids, even though the Mollusca are not really (or obviously) metameric.
A)True
B)False
19

The Mollusca range in size from almost microscopic to the giant squid Architeuthis with a body and tentacle length nearly 100 meters in length.
A)True
B)False
20

Which of the following are suitable habitats for members of the Mollusca?
A)Terrestrial
B)Freshwater
C)Marine
D)Estuary
E)All of the above are suitable for some members of the Mollusca
21

Which of the following is NOT correct?
A)The Mollusca have metanephridia for a circulatory system
B)Molluscan larvae are primitively a trochophore, but many have a veliger larvae and some have direct development
C)The molluscan coelom is reduced
D)The cephalopods have the most highly developed molluscan sensory organs
E)All of the above are correct
22

In cephalopods the muscular mantle and its cavity create jet propulsion used in locomotion.
A)True
B)False
23

Which of the following is NOT correct?
A)Members of the Class Caudofoveata are wormlike, marine organisms, mostly burrowers
B)Members of the Class Solenogastres are marine, wormlike, shell-less molluscs with calcareous scales or spicules in their integument
C)Members of the Class Monoplacophora are all extinct
D)Members of the Class Polyplacophora are called chitons; they are dorsoventrally flattened and have eight articulating limy plates
E)Shells of the Scaphopoda once were used as money by Native Americans of the Northwest
24

Which of the following is mismatched?
A)Operculum-an opening in the shell of a gastropod
B)Torsion-a phenomenon that moves the mantle cavity and twists the visceral organs
C)Coiling-a spiral winding of the shell and visceral mass, different from torsion
D)Conotoxins-a venom with peptides specific for the neuroreceptors of its preferred prey
E)Ctenidium-carries out respiration activities in many gastropods
25

Pulmonate snails have a highly vascularized area in the intestines that serves as a lung.
A)True
B)False
26

Which of the following is among the ecologically most jeopardized groups of molluscs in this country?
A)Squid
B)Terrestrial gastropods
C)Freshwater bivalves
D)Opisthobranchs
E)Zebra mussels
27

In most freshwater clams fertilization is internal and the fertilized eggs develop into glochidia.
A)True
B)False
28

The early nautiloid and ammonoid shells were heavy but made buoyant by a series of gas chambers connected by a cord of living tissue called a...
A)Carbuncle
B)Siphuncle
C)Nephridium
D)Funnel
E)Branchial nerve cord
29

When similar structures that are not inherited from a common ancestor evolve in unrelated animals we call this phenomenon...
A)Divergent evolution
B)Mimicry
C)Mullerian convergence
D)Convergent evolution
E)None of the above is correct
30

An ink sac that empties into the rectum of many cephalopods contains an ink gland that secretes sepia, a dark fluid containing the pigment melanin.
A)True
B)False
31

The Lophotrochozoa-Ecdysozoa hypothesis requires that metamerism arose among protostomes only once.
A)True
B)False







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