While walking in your basement, you hear a crunching noise and notice that you have stepped on an organism. You look closely and see part of a segmented body and a few jointed appendages. What phylum does this animal represent?

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The presence of segmented body and jointed appendages are characteristic features of animals belonging to phylum Arthropoda, which includes insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other related groups. Echinodermata have a spiny skin and radial symmetry, Annelida have segmented bodies with repeated units, and Chordata have a dorsal nerve cord and a notochord at some point in their life cycle.

While Walking in Your Basement, You Hear a Crunching Noise