Multiple Choice Questions

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Shell of molluscs is derived from

  • foot

  • mantle

  • ctenidia

  • placoid


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mantle

Molluscs are soft bodied, unsegmented animals covered by a shell. Mantle is present between the shell and body wall, which secretes the shell.


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Sea gulls excrete excess of NaCl from

  • liver

  • lungs

  • nasal activity

  • kidney


Which of the following have notochord throughout life?

  • Birds

  • Fish

  • Snake

  • Amphioxus


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

  • Thesocytes

  • Pinacocytes

  • Cnidocytes

  • Archaeocytes


The echinoderms are

  • arborial insects

  • marine animals

  • terrestrial insects

  • freshwater forms


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

  • biothermic

  • poikilothermic

  • oligothermic

  • homeothermic


Tube feet is the locomotory organ in 

  • starfish

  • jelly fish

  • silver fish

  • Scoliodon


Connecting link between annelids and molluscs is

  • Neopilina

  • Peripatus

  • Periplaneta

  • Limulus


During unfavourable conditions, the sponges form

  • cyst

  • encyst

  • spicule

  • Gemmule


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Ruminants belong to order

  • Proboscida

  • Artiodactyla

  • Marsupials

  • Edentata


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