Multiple Choice Questions

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Assertion: Cephalisation is advantageous to an animal.

Reason: Cephalisation improves the appearance of an animal.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

  • If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

  • If assertion is true but reason is false.

  • If both assertion and reason are false.


C.

If assertion is true but reason is false.

Cephalisation is the concentration of nervous tissue and sense organs in or towards the anterior end forming a distinct head. It provides greater prominence and domination of the head over the rest of the body. However, it does not improve the appearance of the animal.


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Some salient features and phyla of organisms are given below. Select the option which shows correct combination of organism, its phylum and salient features.


Assertion: The nymph of a cockroach undergoes moulting several times.

Reason: There is gradual metamorphosis in cockroach.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion. 

  • If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion. 

  • If assertion is true but reason is false. 

  • If both assertion and reason are false.


The formation of canal system in sponges is due to

  • reproduction

  • porous walls

  • folding of inner walls

  • gastro- vascular system


Which of the following waste products in grasshopper is not excreted and is used in other metabolic activities

  • Carbon dioxide

  • Water

  • Uric acid

  • Faeces


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Cochineal insects have proved very useful for

  • rodents control

  • Parthenium control

  • cactus prevention

  • Eicchornia prevention


Benthoic animals are those, which

  • are deep dweller in sea

  • are floating (free) organisms

  • are submerged in sea

  • float on the sea surface


Select the option that correctly matches characteristic features with the group of three animals.

  • Skeleton ofspicules ­- Sycon, Adamsia, Spongilla

  • Excretion by flame cells - Taenia, Fasciola, Ancylostoma

  • Mouth contains radula - Dentalium, Octopus, Ophiura

  • Jointed appendages ­- Limulus, Apis, Laccifer


Select the animal that exhibits retrogressive metamorphosis

  • Bufo

  • Limulus

  • Amphioxus

  • Herdmania


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Retrogressive metamorphosis occurs in

  • Hemichordata

  • Cephalochordata

  • Urochordata

  • Vertebrata


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