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Chapter 19: Development

Practice Test
      
  1.What is an animal embryo that has developed three layers of cells?  
  a.   larva  
  b.   nymph  
  c.   gastrula  
  d.   radicle  
  Hint    
      
  2.In starfish, morphogenesis begins when the blastula's outer layer of cells, the ________ , begins to push inward at one end.  
  a.   meristem  
  b.   endoderm  
  c.   ectoderm  
  d.   mesoderm  
  Hint    
      
  3.In humans, where does gas exchange take place between an embryo and its mother?  
  a.   in the chorion  
  b.   through the placenta  
  c.   through the umbilical cord  
  d.   in the allantois  
  Hint    
      
  4.What organ connects the embryo to the placenta?  
  a.   the oviduct  
  b.   the umbilical cord  
  c.   the uterine wall  
  d.   the cervix  
  Hint    
      
  5.Which of these is a stage of development found only in animals that undergo incomplete metamorphosis?  
  a.   larva  
  b.   pupa  
  c.   egg  
  d.   nymph  
  Hint    
      
  6.What membrane in an amniotic egg collects waste products from the developing embryo?  
  a.   amnion  
  b.   egg shell  
  c.   allantois  
  d.   chorion  
  Hint    
      
  7.What is a series of changes in a zygote that lead to the formation of a mature organism?  
  a.   germination  
  b.   development  
  c.   growth  
  d.   differentiation  
  Hint    
      
  8.What is the stalklike part of a plant embryo?  
  a.   meristem  
  b.   epicotyl  
  c.   hypocotyl  
  d.   radicle  
  Hint    
      
  9.What is a leaflike storage organ that develops from the upper part of a plant embryo?  
  a.   radicle  
  b.   cotyledon  
  c.   meristem  
  d.   epicotyl  
  Hint    
      
  10.Once the archenteron has formed, the cells it is made up of are called __________ .  
  a.   ectoderm  
  b.   meristem  
  c.   endoderm  
  d.   mesoderm  
  Hint    

 
   
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