Multiple Choice Questions

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Identify the incorrect match

  • Mulberry silk - Bombyx mori

  • Tasar silk - Antheraea pernyi

  • Muga silk - Antheraea assama

  • Eri silk - Attacus ricini


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Tasar silk - Antheraea pernyi

Tasar silk is obtained from Antheraea paphia that belongs to Family - Saturniidae. It is common in India, China and Sri Lanka. Antheraea pernyi is oak silkworm. It also produces good quality silk.


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Ornithorhynchus is a connecting link between

  • fishes and amphibians

  • Annelida and Arthropoda

  • Annelida and Mollusca

  • reptiles and mammals


Aristotle's lentern is

  • pedicellariae in Pycnopodia

  • arval form in Antedon

  • pressure equalisation plate in Asterias

  • masticatory organ in the digestive tract of sea urchin


Mehli's gland in tapeworm is associated with

  • respiration

  • reproduction

  • excretion

  • circulation


All chordates at one or other stage possess

  • two pairs of pentadactyl limbs

  • pharyngeal gill slits

  • movable jaw

  • vertebral column


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Mammals have

  • biconvex RBCs to increase the surface area

  • biconcave RBCs to increase the surface area

  • spherical RBCs to increase the surface area

  • no RBCs


The eggs of the amphibians are

  • Mesolecithal

  • Telolecithal

  • Centrolecithal

  • Homolecithal


Haemocyanin pigment is found in which of the following animal group?

  • Annelida

  • Insects

  • Lower invertebrates

  • Platyheliminthes


A fish introduced into a water body to control mosquito population is

  • Gambusia

  • Labeo

  • Notopterus

  • Fistularia


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Which of the following animals has a tetramorphic colony?

  • Velella

  • Physalia

  • Obelia

  • Porpita


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