You Find a Multilegged Animal in Your Garden and Want

question 18

Multiple Choice

You find a multilegged animal in your garden and want to determine if it is a centipede or a millipede. You take the animal to a university where a myriapodologist quickly tells you that you have found a centipede. Which of the following may have allowed her to make this distinction?

• A) segmentation
• B) poisonous fangs
• C) the total number of legs
• D) egg-laying
• E) molting

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