Question

Neopilina serves as a connecting link between which two groups of organisms?

Options

• Annelids and molluscs

• Molluscs and arthropods

• Annelids and arthropods

• Fishes and molluscs

Answer 1

Neopilina is a connecting link between annelids and molluscs. It exhibits characteristics of both groups, demonstrating the evolutionary relationship between these two major phyla. Neopilina shows how segmented annelids may have evolved into the unsegmented body plan characteristic of molluscs.