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Questions

1. Fungi used to be thought as relatives of the plants. What features do they share with plants? Now, we know that fungi are actually more closely related to animals. Explain why.

2. Explain, the 4 possible steps of early cellular life on earth?

3. "The evolution of plants has resulted in a trend of reduced size of the gametophyte generation." Explain this statement using moss, ferns, and angiosperms as examples. Point out the structures involved.

4. Why are animals like a centipede, a horseshoe crab and a barnacle, which all look very different, considered to be in the same group?

5. Which structure in the gymnosperm's is roughly equivalent to the anther in the angiosperms? Why?

6. When you worked on chapter 18 (Fig 18.4) you looked at nine different animal groups. Explain why you would classify yourself as a chordate (we hope) and not another group.

7. "Annelids and arthropods are the only groups of animals which are segmented." True or false? Why?