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81.

The echinoderms are

  • arborial insects

  • marine animals

  • terrestrial insects

  • freshwater forms


82.

Tube feet is the locomotory organ in 

  • starfish

  • jelly fish

  • silver fish

  • Scoliodon


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83.

Sea gulls excrete excess of NaCl from

  • liver

  • lungs

  • nasal activity

  • kidney


C.

nasal activity

Sea gulls have salt glands which excrete large loads of salt taken with their food and with the water they drink. Sea water contains 3% salt which is three times saltier than a bird's body fluid. 

Salt glands are located above each eye and consists of several lobes arranged parallely. Salts are secreted into many radially arranged tubules then flows into a central canal that leads into the nose.


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84.

Connecting link between annelids and molluscs is

  • Neopilina

  • Peripatus

  • Periplaneta

  • Limulus


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85.

Ruminants belong to order

  • Proboscida

  • Artiodactyla

  • Marsupials

  • Edentata


86.

Which of the following have notochord throughout life?

  • Birds

  • Fish

  • Snake

  • Amphioxus


87.

During unfavourable conditions, the sponges form

  • cyst

  • encyst

  • spicule

  • Gemmule


88.

Shell of molluscs is derived from

  • foot

  • mantle

  • ctenidia

  • placoid


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89.

Which of the following cell type is capable of giving rise to other cell types in sponges?

  • Thesocytes

  • Pinacocytes

  • Cnidocytes

  • Archaeocytes


90.

Animals having a built in thermostat to maintain constant body temperature are known as

  • biothermic

  • poikilothermic

  • oligothermic

  • homeothermic


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