Question 35

(Multiple Choice)

Which of these, if true, would support the claim that the ancestral cnidarians had bilateral symmetry?
1)Cnidarian larvae possess anterior-posterior, left-right, and dorsal-ventral aspects.
2)Cnidarians have fewer Hox genes than bilaterians.
3)All extant cnidarians, including Nematostella, are diploblastic.
4)β-catenin turns out to be essential for gastrulation in all animals in which it occurs.
5)All cnidarians are acoelomate.


A) 1 only
B) 1 and 4
C) 2 and 3
D) 2 and 4
E) 4 and 5

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