Question

An organism and its taxonomic key are shown below.

An image of an organism is shown. The organism has two body regions with four legs on each side. 3 mm is written next to the image of the organism. There are no claw-like pinchers.


Taxonomic Key
Step Characteristic Organism
1 8 legs Go to step 2.
More than 8 legs Go to step 3.
2 One body region Go to step 4.
Two body regions Go to step 5.
3 One pair of legs on each body segment Centipede
Two pairs of legs on each body segment Millipede
4 Less than 1 millimeter long Mite
More than 1 millimeter long Tick
5 Claw-like pinchers Go to step 6.
No claw-like pinchers Spider
6 Long tail with a stinger Scorpion
No tail or stinger Pseudoscorpion

Which organism is shown in the image?
Millipede
Spider
Scorpion
Tick

Answer 1

Answer: its a spider

Explanation: cause it case a legs and it has two body regions

Answer 2

spider has no tail and has no stinger