Multiple Choice Questions

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Which of the following animals has a tetramorphic colony?

  • Velella

  • Physalia

  • Obelia

  • Porpita


B.

Physalia

Physalia is tetramorphic in nature, it consists of

(i) a small dactylozooid with a long slender tantacle.

(ii) a gastrozooid with mouth but no tentacle.

(iii) a branched gonozooid, which bears both male and female gonophores.

(iv) a large dactylozooid with an enormous nematocyst bearing fishing tentacle.


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All chordates at one or other stage possess

  • two pairs of pentadactyl limbs

  • pharyngeal gill slits

  • movable jaw

  • vertebral column


Mehli's gland in tapeworm is associated with

  • respiration

  • reproduction

  • excretion

  • circulation


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


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Ornithorhynchus is a connecting link between

  • fishes and amphibians

  • Annelida and Arthropoda

  • Annelida and Mollusca

  • reptiles and mammals


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

  • Gambusia

  • Labeo

  • Notopterus

  • Fistularia


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


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


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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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