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question 69

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the description below.
Terry catches a ray-finned fish from the ocean and notices that, attached to its flank, there is an equally long, snakelike organism. The attached organism has no external segmentation, no scales, a round mouth surrounded by a sucker and two small eyes. Terry thinks it might be a marine leech, a hagfish, or a lamprey.
-Which feature excludes it from possibly being a leech?

• A)its elongate shape
• B)its lack of scales
• C)its lack of external segmentation
• D)its round mouth
• E)its anterior sucker

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