Answer:
- A Tongue-shaped structure called radula for grasping food --> Mollusca
- Fleshy lobe-like structure called parapodia --> Annelida
- Spongin fibers or spicules for support ---> Porifera
Explanation:
Radula: This is an organ used in feeding by mollusks. It constitutes a highly developed feeding organ. The radula has is conformed of small teeth-like structures located in rows. Lateral teeth vary in shape and size. The movements of the radula during feeding are complexes acting as a scratcher on the surface to get the food.
Parapodia: These are characteristic lateral appendixes that emerge and extend from each of the body segments of invertebrates such as polychaetes. The typical parapodium is a fleshy prolongation more or less laterally comprised and is composed of a superior branch (notopodium) and an inferior branch (parapodium).
Spicules: Sponges (Poriferous) skeleton is composed of calcium carbonate and siliceous micro-structures called spicules. Their morphology is so varied that it is used in taxonomy for identification and classification.
There are different kinds of spicules:
- Monoaxonic spicule: needle-shaped, straights or curves
- Tetraxonic spicules: they have four prolongations
- Triaxonic or Hexaxonic spicules
- Poliaxonic spicules
Two terms can be applied to any of these spicules kinds:
- Megaspicules: They are elongated and compose the main architecture of the sponge skeleton
- Microspicules: Variable in shape and size, with ancillary functions
Sponges have few predators because of the spicule structures and their high toxicity. Many of them are capable of perforating soft tissues and producing urticant substances.
2 eroding of land by wind
4 overusing land
3 plowing land without replanting
Persistent chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides persist in the environment and accumulate in the foods chain causing harmful effects on the environment including posing a threat to humans health in the long term. Nonpersistent organophosphate pesticides are more toxic than the former but degrade after a short life span. Therefore they cause immediate harm in case one is in contact with them.
The fact that they do not accumulate in the environment, they are more favourable than chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides. Chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides will affect several generations due to their accumulation in the environment. However they don't need to be re-applied hence are less expensive
Answer:
The correct answer is option A. "directional selection".
Explanation:
Directional selection is a type of natural selection at which traits with extreme characteristics are selected over traits with medium characteristics. In this case, a long-term climatic change resulted in all seeds that are the fountain of food for finch becoming hard. This will result in a directional selection on bill size in the finch population, where large-billed birds will be selected over small and medium-billed birds.
Answer:
They produce or process nutrients in the digestive tracts of humans and other animals.
Explanation:
