You find a multi-legged animal in your garden and want to determine if it is a centipede or a millipede. You take the animal to a university where a myriapodologist quickly tells you that you have found a centipede. Which of the following may have allowed her to make this distinction? A) segmentationB) poisonous fangsC) egg-layingD) molting

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8 March, 01:50

You find a multi-legged animal in your garden and want to determine if it is a centipede or a millipede. You take the animal to a university where a myriapodologist quickly tells you that you have found a centipede. Which of the following may have allowed her to make this distinction? A) segmentationB) poisonous fangsC) egg-layingD) molting

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Braxton West · Answer 1

B) poisonous fangs

Explanation:

Centipedes and millipedes are jointed legs animals. Centipedes are members of the class chilopoda and millipedes are members of the class diplopoda of the phylum Arthropoda.

Presence of poisonous fangs in the centipedes differentiate them from millipedes. Nutritionally centipedes are carnivorous, they kill prey or paralyze prey with large jaws. Unlike the centipede, millipedes are feed on dead and decaying organic matter such as leaves and compost.