Multiple Choice Questions

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A sponge harmful to oyster industry is

  • Cliona

  • Euspongia

  • Hyalonema

  • Spongilla


A.

Cliona

Boring sponges, such as Cliona, attach themselves to shells of oysters, clams, barnacles etc, boring them so full of holes that their contained animals are destroyed and in time, the shells are entirely broken up. Lime of these shells gets dissolved into sea water to be used over again by other animals. Sometimes, these boring sponges may prove great nuisance to oyster beds.


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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


Leveret is young one of

  • eagle

  • hawk

  • deer

  • None of these


Moulting in snakes is done by shedding

  • comified cells

  • stratified germinativum

  • epidermis

  • dermis


Which one is not diploblastic?

  • Sponge

  • Cnidarian

  • Nematoda

  • Tenophora


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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


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

  • Dentary

  • Hyoid

  • Upper jaw

  • All of these


Gemmule formation in sponges are useful in

  • asexual reproduction

  • sexual reproduction

  • parthenogenesis

  • parthenocarpy


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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


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