The Living World Question 259
Question: Peripatus is known as a connecting link, because it has the characters of both [MH-CET 2003]
Options:
A) Aves and Fishes
B) Reptiles and Birds
C) Fishes and Amphibians
D) Arthropoda and Annelids
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Answer:
Correct Answer: D
Solution:
It acts as connecting link between Annelids and Arthropods.
Like annelids, it has continuous muscle layers in the body wall, unjointed leg like parapodia, nephridia for excretion and simple gut.
Main arthropod characters are claves on the legs, hoemocoel, tracheae for respiration, dorsal hearts with ostia etc.
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