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 traits may have allowed her to make this distinction?
A) presence of body segments
B) poisonous claws
C) egg-laying
D) molting

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Centipedes have venomous claws on the first pair of legs, which they use to catch and kill prey. Millipedes do not have these claws. The other traits listed (presence of body segments, egg-laying, and molting) are common to both centipedes and millipedes.

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