Question

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

Answer 1

Answer: A- segmentation

Explanation:

Both Millipedes and centipedes are arthropods with jointed legs and multiple segments. While millipedes are flattened slightly with multi segmented bodies, where the first segment is usually legless, while the second to the fourth are characterised with two legs and then the rest have four legs.

A centipede on the other hand, is a multi segmented anthropod a pair of legs on each segment, and their legs range from 30 to 354 on their one inch length bodies, which are known to be longer than that of millipedes.