Multiple Choice Questions

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

  • Bat

  • Kangaroo

  • Platypus

  • Ostrich


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Platypus

Duckbilled platypus (Ornithorhyncus anatinus) is a semi-aquatic prototherian found in Australia and Tasmania. In these, the females lay eggs but yet produce milk and possess mammary glands without teats. Milk collects in two abdominal grooves from where the young ones obtainit through lapping.


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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


Gemmule formation in sponges are useful in

  • asexual reproduction

  • sexual reproduction

  • parthenogenesis

  • parthenocarpy


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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A sponge harmful to oyster industry is

  • Cliona

  • Euspongia

  • Hyalonema

  • Spongilla


Water vascular system is characteristic of

  • Protozoa

  • Porifera

  • Annelida

  • Echinodermata


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

  • Dentary

  • Hyoid

  • Upper jaw

  • All of these


Which one is not diploblastic?

  • Sponge

  • Cnidarian

  • Nematoda

  • Tenophora


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Moulting in snakes is done by shedding

  • comified cells

  • stratified germinativum

  • epidermis

  • dermis


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