Multiple Choice Questions

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Which of the following is made up of a single bone in mammals?

  • Dentary

  • Hyoid

  • Upper jaw

  • All of these


A.

Dentary

Dentary is a tooth bearing membrane bone. In mammals, it is the lower jaw, consisting of single membrane bone on each side fused together in front.


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Moulting in snakes is done by shedding

  • comified cells

  • stratified germinativum

  • epidermis

  • dermis


Which one is not diploblastic?

  • Sponge

  • Cnidarian

  • Nematoda

  • Tenophora


Sycon belongs to a group of animals which are best described as

  • multicellular with a gastrovascular system

  • multicellular having tissue organisation, but no body cavity

  • unicellular or acellular

  • multicellular without any tissue organisation


Leveret is young one of

  • eagle

  • hawk

  • deer

  • None of these


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A sponge harmful to oyster industry is

  • Cliona

  • Euspongia

  • Hyalonema

  • Spongilla


Gemmule formation in sponges are useful in

  • asexual reproduction

  • sexual reproduction

  • parthenogenesis

  • parthenocarpy


Which one of the following animals lay eggs yet the female secretes milk?

  • Bat

  • Kangaroo

  • Platypus

  • Ostrich


Water vascular system is characteristic of

  • Protozoa

  • Porifera

  • Annelida

  • Echinodermata


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During its life cycie, Fasciola hepatica (liver fluke) infects its intermediate host and primary host at the following larval stages respectively

  • metacercaria and ceracaria

  • miracidium and metacercaria

  • redia and miracidium

  • cercaria and redia


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