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Annnelida and Arthropoda

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Insects and houseflies have bodies that are differentiated into head, thorax and abdomen. They have joint legs but no vertebral column. Now, in which phylum would you classify these animals ?

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Annelida

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Birds

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Arthropoda

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Mollusca

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Solution

The correct option is C Arthropoda
An arthropod is a phylum which includes all invertebrate (devoid of the vertebral column) animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and jointed appendages. Arthropoda is bilaterally symmetrical, triploblastic and has a true coelom. Its body is divided into three parts-head, thorax and abdomen.

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