Multiple Choice Questions

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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.


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

Gradual metamorphosis occurs in many insects such as cockroaches. In gradual metamorphosis, there are three stages: egg, nymph and adult. As nymphs, they moult several times (13 times in cockroach), but once they become adults they do not moult again. Nymphs are similar in shape to the adults, but smaller in size and without wings.


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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.


Benthoic animals are those, which

  • are deep dweller in sea

  • are floating (free) organisms

  • are submerged in sea

  • float on the sea surface


The formation of canal system in sponges is due to

  • reproduction

  • porous walls

  • folding of inner walls

  • gastro- vascular system


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


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Retrogressive metamorphosis occurs in

  • Hemichordata

  • Cephalochordata

  • Urochordata

  • Vertebrata


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

  • Carbon dioxide

  • Water

  • Uric acid

  • Faeces


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


Select the animal that exhibits retrogressive metamorphosis

  • Bufo

  • Limulus

  • Amphioxus

  • Herdmania


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Cochineal insects have proved very useful for

  • rodents control

  • Parthenium control

  • cactus prevention

  • Eicchornia prevention


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