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A student at Kaloleni High School picked an organism by the shore of the Indian Ocean. After examining it very carefully,she formed an opinion that...

A student at Kaloleni High School picked an organism by the shore of the Indian Ocean. After examining it very carefully,she formed an opinion that the organism belongs to class Arachnida. She then classified it as follows:-
Kingdom – Animalia
Phylum – Arthropoda
Class – Arachnida
(a) Identify one mistake in her classification.
(b) List down two characteristics that she could have used in placing the organism in class Arachnida.

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sharon
(a) Phylum Arthropoda;
(b) - Two body parts (cephalothorax and head)
(i) Ventral size of cephalothorax has 2 chellicerae each having claw like structure (produce poison).
(ii) Cephalothorax, has four pairs of walking legs, having seven joints and ends in two toothed claws.
(iii) They have pair of pedipalps – (Sensitive to touch, in some arachnids they squeeze and chew food, in mites, tips are
specialized containers to transfer sperms)
(iv) Cephalothorax has 8 simple eyes.
sharon kalunda answered the question on September 17, 2019 at 12:53

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