Multiple Choice Questions

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The echinoderms are

  • arborial insects

  • marine animals

  • terrestrial insects

  • freshwater forms


B.

marine animals

All members of Phylum- Echinodermata are marine. Therefore, Echinoderms are marine, spiny skinned animals. They have water vascular system for locomotion, eg, starfish, Antedon.

Arboreal insects lives on trees. Freshwater forms are animals or plants living in fresh water of ponds, eg, Hydrilla.


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Ruminants belong to order

  • Proboscida

  • Artiodactyla

  • Marsupials

  • Edentata


Which of the following cell type is capable of giving rise to other cell types in sponges?

  • Thesocytes

  • Pinacocytes

  • Cnidocytes

  • Archaeocytes


Tube feet is the locomotory organ in 

  • starfish

  • jelly fish

  • silver fish

  • Scoliodon


Shell of molluscs is derived from

  • foot

  • mantle

  • ctenidia

  • placoid


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Animals having a built in thermostat to maintain constant body temperature are known as

  • biothermic

  • poikilothermic

  • oligothermic

  • homeothermic


Which of the following have notochord throughout life?

  • Birds

  • Fish

  • Snake

  • Amphioxus


Sea gulls excrete excess of NaCl from

  • liver

  • lungs

  • nasal activity

  • kidney


Connecting link between annelids and molluscs is

  • Neopilina

  • Peripatus

  • Periplaneta

  • Limulus


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During unfavourable conditions, the sponges form

  • cyst

  • encyst

  • spicule

  • Gemmule


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