Explain Why the Brachiopoda Are Not Included with the Phylum

question 5

Short Answer

Explain why the Brachiopoda are not included with the phylum Mollusca,class Bivalvia since they do have a mantle that secretes two shells.

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Definitions:

Probability

The measure of the likelihood that an event will occur, represented as a number between 0 and 1.

Exponentially Distributed

Pertains to a type of statistical distribution that describes the time between events in a process where events occur continuously and independently at a constant average rate.

Variance

Variance is a statistical measure that represents the dispersion or spread of a dataset by calculating the average of the squared differences from the mean, indicating how much the data points in a set differ from the mean value.

Exponential Distribution

A probability distribution that describes the time between events in a process where occurrences happen at a constant rate.