Animal Kingdom

Question

All chordates at one or other stage possess

  • two pairs of pentadactyl limbs

  • pharyngeal gill slits

  • movable jaw

  • vertebral column

Answer

B.

pharyngeal gill slits

In all the chordates, at some stage of their life history, a series of paired lateral gill clefts or gill slits perforate through the pharyngeal wall of the gut behind the mouth. They serve primarily for the passage of water from pharynx to outside.

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