Multiple Choice Questions

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Select the animal that exhibits retrogressive metamorphosis

  • Bufo

  • Limulus

  • Amphioxus

  • Herdmania


D.

Herdmania

Retrogressive metamorphosis occurs in Urochordates (e.g., Herdmania, Ascidia, Doliolum etc.), in which better developed (advanced) larva changes to less developed (primitive) adult.


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Retrogressive metamorphosis occurs in

  • Hemichordata

  • Cephalochordata

  • Urochordata

  • Vertebrata


Assertion: Cephalisation is advantageous to an animal.

Reason: Cephalisation improves the appearance of an animal.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

  • If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

  • If assertion is true but reason is false.

  • If both assertion and reason are false.


Assertion: The nymph of a cockroach undergoes moulting several times.

Reason: There is gradual metamorphosis in cockroach.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion. 

  • If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion. 

  • If assertion is true but reason is false. 

  • If both assertion and reason are false.


Cochineal insects have proved very useful for

  • rodents control

  • Parthenium control

  • cactus prevention

  • Eicchornia prevention


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The formation of canal system in sponges is due to

  • reproduction

  • porous walls

  • folding of inner walls

  • gastro- vascular system


Select the option that correctly matches characteristic features with the group of three animals.

  • Skeleton ofspicules ­- Sycon, Adamsia, Spongilla

  • Excretion by flame cells - Taenia, Fasciola, Ancylostoma

  • Mouth contains radula - Dentalium, Octopus, Ophiura

  • Jointed appendages ­- Limulus, Apis, Laccifer


Some salient features and phyla of organisms are given below. Select the option which shows correct combination of organism, its phylum and salient features.


Benthoic animals are those, which

  • are deep dweller in sea

  • are floating (free) organisms

  • are submerged in sea

  • float on the sea surface


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Which of the following waste products in grasshopper is not excreted and is used in other metabolic activities

  • Carbon dioxide

  • Water

  • Uric acid

  • Faeces


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