Multiple Choice Questions

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Gemmule formation in sponges are useful in

  • asexual reproduction

  • sexual reproduction

  • parthenogenesis

  • parthenocarpy


A.

asexual reproduction

Gemmules are asexual reproductive bodies of. sponges. These are formed by endogenous budding in all fresh water and some marine sponges.

Sexual reproduction involves viable male and female gametes.

Development of egg into an adult without fertilization is called parthenogenesis. It is common in honey bees.

Parthenocarpy is the development of seedless fruits.


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A sponge harmful to oyster industry is

  • Cliona

  • Euspongia

  • Hyalonema

  • Spongilla


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

  • Dentary

  • Hyoid

  • Upper jaw

  • All of these


Moulting in snakes is done by shedding

  • comified cells

  • stratified germinativum

  • epidermis

  • dermis


Water vascular system is characteristic of

  • Protozoa

  • Porifera

  • Annelida

  • Echinodermata


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Which one is not diploblastic?

  • Sponge

  • Cnidarian

  • Nematoda

  • Tenophora


Leveret is young one of

  • eagle

  • hawk

  • deer

  • None of these


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


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

  • Bat

  • Kangaroo

  • Platypus

  • Ostrich


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