Animal Kingdom Question 422

Question: A student brought a strange animal at home which he found outside under a rock. It had moist skin, a complete digestive tract, a ventral nerve cord, and had gone through torsion. Identify the phylum of the animal.

Options:

A) Porifera

B) Annelida

C) Mollusca

D) Echinodermata

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Answer:

Correct Answer: C

Solution:

[c] The animal found by the boy belongs to mollusca phylum.

Mollusca are the second largest phylum after arthropoda and include predominantly marine animals.

They are triploblastic, bilaterally symmetrical, schizocoelic and unsegmented protostomes.

They have moist skin, a complete digestive tract, a ventral nerve cord, and had gone through torsion.