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) moulting

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Poisonous claws are a distinguishing feature of centipedes. Millipedes lack these claws and rely on chemical defenses instead. The other traits listed are common to both centipedes and millipedes.

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