MARINE BIOLOGY
MARINE BIOLOGY
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To explain: The reason why the sea daisies or concentricycloids were classified as echinoderms, and not as the members of a new phylum.

Introduction: Animal phylogeny is the rapidly changing field for the biologists. Even the members of animal kingdom are incredibly diverse, there are various animals sharing certain features that resemble them from other organisms of the kingdom.

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To propose: A hypothesis is how sea daisies feed or move around.

Introduction: Animal phylogeny is the rapidly changing field for the biologists. Even the members of animal kingdom are incredibly diverse, there are various animals sharing certain features that resemble them from other organisms of the kingdom. Sea daisies are small, circular animals and are related to sea star. They belong to the phylum echinoderms.

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A new group of echinoderms, the sea daisies, or concentricycloids, wasdiscovered in 1986. They are deep-water animals living on sunken wood.They are flat and round, looking very much like a small sea star withoutarms. They also lack a gut. Without ever having seen them, why do youthink they were classified as echinoderms, not as members of a new phylum? Do you have any hypotheses as to how they feed or move around?
Which of the following classes includes the only type of echinoderm that has a calyx on a stalk? Echinoidea Holothuroidea Ophiuroidea Asteroidea Crinoidea
What is the sister group to the Tetrapoda clade?
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