Question

You go to the seafood market and buy a box of what are labeled “clams.” Before cooking them, you place them in salt water and observe feathery organs that are repeatedly projected from between the two halves of the organisms’ shells. You return them to the market and suggest that they be relabeled as

a. oysters.

b. brachiopods.

c. gastropods.

d. cephalopods.

Answer 1

The feathery structure are known as gills and these are present in the gastropods. Hence, the box should be labeled as gastropods.