Multiple Choice Questions

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Tube feet is the locomotory organ in 

  • starfish

  • jelly fish

  • silver fish

  • Scoliodon


A.

starfish

Tube feet are extensible tubular processes bearing suckers and present in rows on the under surface of Echinoderms. These are connected internally with water vascular system. Each tube foot has an ampulla, a podium and a sucker. These are sensory structures that take part in adhesion, locomotion, respiration and food capturing. 

Jelly fish is a member of Phylum- Coelenterata. Scoiliodon is a fish and silver fish is an arthropod.


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The echinoderms are

  • arborial insects

  • marine animals

  • terrestrial insects

  • freshwater forms


Which of the following cell type is capable of giving rise to other cell types in sponges?

  • Thesocytes

  • Pinacocytes

  • Cnidocytes

  • Archaeocytes


During unfavourable conditions, the sponges form

  • cyst

  • encyst

  • spicule

  • Gemmule


Shell of molluscs is derived from

  • foot

  • mantle

  • ctenidia

  • placoid


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Which of the following have notochord throughout life?

  • Birds

  • Fish

  • Snake

  • Amphioxus


Connecting link between annelids and molluscs is

  • Neopilina

  • Peripatus

  • Periplaneta

  • Limulus


Sea gulls excrete excess of NaCl from

  • liver

  • lungs

  • nasal activity

  • kidney


Animals having a built in thermostat to maintain constant body temperature are known as

  • biothermic

  • poikilothermic

  • oligothermic

  • homeothermic


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Ruminants belong to order

  • Proboscida

  • Artiodactyla

  • Marsupials

  • Edentata


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