Multiple Choice Questions

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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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miracidium and metacercaria

Liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica) is a digenetic endoparasite, i.e., its life cycle completes within two hosts.

The primary host is sheep and the secondary or intermediate host is freshwater gastropod, snail. It infects its intermediate host at miracidium stage and its primary host at metacercaria stage.


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Moulting in snakes is done by shedding

  • comified cells

  • stratified germinativum

  • epidermis

  • dermis


Leveret is young one of

  • eagle

  • hawk

  • deer

  • None of these


Which one is not diploblastic?

  • Sponge

  • Cnidarian

  • Nematoda

  • Tenophora


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

  • Dentary

  • Hyoid

  • Upper jaw

  • All of these


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Gemmule formation in sponges are useful in

  • asexual reproduction

  • sexual reproduction

  • parthenogenesis

  • parthenocarpy


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


Water vascular system is characteristic of

  • Protozoa

  • Porifera

  • Annelida

  • Echinodermata


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

  • Bat

  • Kangaroo

  • Platypus

  • Ostrich


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A sponge harmful to oyster industry is

  • Cliona

  • Euspongia

  • Hyalonema

  • Spongilla


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