You Find a Wormlike Animal While Scuba Diving and Want

question 43

Multiple Choice

You find a wormlike animal while scuba diving and want to determine whether it is a nudibranch, a polychaete, or a flatworm. Finding which of the following traits would best help you classify the mystery animal?

• A) bristle-like structures on tiny appendages
• B) a coelom
• C) the ability to swim
• D) bright coloration
• E) sexual reproduction

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