Biology
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ISBN: 9780078024269
Author: Sylvia Mader, Michael Windelspecht
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 28, Problem 2A
The phylogenetic tree of animals shows that
a. rotifers are closely related to
b. both molluscs and annelids are protostomes.
c. some animals have radial symmetry.
d. sponges were the first to evolve from an ancestral protist.
e. All of these are correct.
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