Question 25

(Multiple Choice)

A student observes a wormlike organism crawling about on dead organic matter.Later,the organism sheds its outer covering.One possibility is that the organism is a larval insect (like a maggot).However,it might be a member of the phylum ________,and one way to distinguish between the two possibilities is by looking for ________.


A)Platyhelminthes; a cuticle of chitin
B)Nematoda; an alimentary canal
C)Annelida; a body cavity
D)Nematoda; a circulatory system
E)Annelida; muscle in the body wall

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