PT114.S4.Q24

PrepTest 114 - Section 4 - Question 24

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Summary

Most land-dwelling vertebrates have rotating limbs with fingers, a feature useful for land movement. The Acanthostega, a newly discovered ancestor of all land vertebrates, possessed rotating limbs with fingers, but its skeleton was too feeble for land movement. The Acanthostega breathed using only internal gills, indicating that it was exclusively aquatic.

Strongly Supported Conclusions

Some physical features common to certain aquatic animals are useful for land movement.

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24.

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a

Many anatomical characteristics ██████ ██ ████ ████ ███████ █████████ █ ████████████ ███ ████████ ███████████

b

None of the ██████████ ███████████████ ██████ ██ ████ ███████ ███████ █████████ ██ █████████ ███ ████████ ██ █████

c

Acanthostega originated as █ █████████████ ████████ ███ ███████ █████ ████ █████ ██████ ██ ██ ██████████ ████████████

d

All anatomical characteristics ███ ██████ ███ ████ ████████ ███ ██████ ██ ████ ████ ███████ █████████ ██ █████████ ███ ████████ ███████████

e

Certain anatomical characteristics ██████ ██ ████ ███████ ███████ █████████ ██ █████████ ███ ████████ ██ █████

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