To Be Characterized as a Chordate, an Organism Must

question 72

Multiple Choice

To be characterized as a chordate, an organism must

• A) display all four key characteristics of Chordata in both the larval and adult stages.
• B) possess a backbone in at least one life stage.
• C) possess a backbone in both the larval and adult stages.
• D) display each of the four key characteristics of the chordates at some point in the life cycle.

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Definitions:

Poisson Distribution

A probability distribution that models the number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space, given the events occur with a known constant rate and independently of the time since the last event.

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Probability

The quantification of how likely an event is to occur, expressed as a number ranging between 0 and 1.

Bivariate Distributions

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