Multiple Choice Questions

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Moulting hormone is secreted by

  • corpora cardacum

  • corpora allata

  • neurosecretory hormone

  • prothoracic gland


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prothoracic gland

Prothoracic gland is also known as moult gland in some arthropods and Y organ or ventral gland in crustaceans. It secretes moulting hormone called ecdysone or ecdysome, which is steroid and stimulates moulting or ecdysis during metamorphosis in insects.


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In Mollusca, eye is present over a stalk, called

  • ostracum

  • operculum

  • ommatophores

  • osphradium


Connecting link between annelids and molluscs is

  • Neopilina

  • Peripatus

  • Periplaneta

  • Limulus


The intermediate host of Schistosoma is

  • Snail

  • mosquito

  • housefly

  • sheep


Shell of molluscs is derived from

  • foot

  • mantle

  • ctenidia

  • placoid


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The excretory material of bony fish is

  • urea

  • protein

  • ammonia

  • amino acid


The characteristic larva of Phylum- 'Coelenterata' is

  • planula

  • cysticercus

  • rhabdiform

  • wriggler


In sea anemone, the symmetry is

  • radial

  • bilateral

  • spherical

  • absent


Tuberllarians are free living

  • nematodes

  • cestodes

  • flat worms

  • trematodes


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Solenocytes are associated with

  • respiration

  • digestion

  • excretion

  • nutrition


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