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Ammonoids/Quiz

Ammonoids is a lecture and an article from the school of geology based in part on paleontology and on gene transcription, with an eye towards describing ammonoids genetically.

Fossil shell is of Lytoceras cornucopia from Isère (France). Credit: Hectonichus.

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Quiz

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1 Yes or No, An ammonoid is an extinct cephalopod mollusk with a flat-coiled spiral shell.

Yes
No

2 Which of the following are phenomena associated with mollusks?

a structured nervous system
a prominent head
bilateral body symmetry
radula
muscular hydrostats
a mantle with a cavity for breathing and excretion

3 Yes or No, Snails are mollusks with coiled spiral shells that are also ammonoids.

Yes
No

4 The portion of a promoter in which an ammonite promoter is likely to be found is which of the following?

dispersed promoter
proximal promoter
downstream promoter
distal promoter
enhancer
focused promoter
core promoter

5 Yes or No, A body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted, is called a mantle.

Yes
No

6 Which of the following are phenomena associated with cephalopods?

radula
muscular hydrostats
a prominent head
lobate suture lines
frilled suture lines
a structured nervous system

7 Which of the following are phenomena associated with ammonoids?

suture lines
muscular hydrostats
radula
siphuncle
prominent head
a structured nervous system

8 True or False, DNA has been extracted from a Lower Cambrian ammonite.

TRUE
FALSE

9 Complete the text:

The scientific study of

(often extended to all

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10 Complete the text:

Match up the type of cephalopod with each of the possibilities below:
Agoniatite - A
Ammonite - B
Belemnoid - C
Ceratite - D
Clymeniid - E
Coleoid - F
Goniatite - G
Lytocerate - H
Nautiloid - I
Nostoceratid - J
Phyllocerate - K
Prolecanites - L
 

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File:Prolecanites sutures.png

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Hypotheses

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Main resource: Hypotheses
  1. Ammonoids are all cephalopods that can grow an external shell.

See also

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{{Anthropology resources}}{{Gene project}}

{{Medicine resources}}{{Phosphate biochemistry}}

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