101. Echinoderms are closest to:
Answer: C. chordates
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101. Echinoderms are closest to:
Answer: C. chordates
102. Which is an echinoderm?
Answer: C. Starfish, sea urchin, sea cucumber
103. The power of regenerating lost arms by starfish is called:
Answer: B. autotomy and regeneration
104. Hemichordates are known as:
Answer: B. acorn worms
105. Hemichordates are also called:
Answer: B. prochordates
106. The body of hemichordates has three regions:
Answer: B. proboscis, collar and trunk
107. Balanoglossus and Saccoglossus belong to:
Answer: B. Hemichordata
108. The characteristic features of chordates are:
Answer: B. notochord, dorsal hollow nerve cord, gill slits and post-anal tail
109. The notochord is a:
Answer: B. solid unjointed rod in the mid-dorsal line between gut and nerve cord
110. The nerve cord in chordates is:
Answer: B. single, tubular, non-ganglionated and dorsal
111. In humans the post-anal tail regresses into the:
Answer: B. tailbone (coccyx)
112. Phylum Chordata is divided into:
Answer: B. Protochordata (Acrania) and Craniata
113. The two subphyla of Protochordata are:
Answer: B. Urochordata and Cephalochordata
114. Urochordates are known as:
Answer: B. tunicates
115. An example of Urochordata is:
Answer: B. Ascidia
116. In urochordates the notochord is present in the:
Answer: B. larval tail, and disappears in the adult
117. Amphioxus belongs to:
Answer: B. Cephalochordata
118. In cephalochordates the notochord extends:
Answer: C. the entire length of the body
119. Craniata have one subphylum:
Answer: C. Vertebrata
120. The two superclasses of Vertebrata are:
Answer: B. Agnatha and Gnathostomata
121. Agnatha are:
Answer: B. jawless fishes
122. Examples of Agnatha are:
Answer: C. Hagfish and lamprey
123. Jaws are believed to have evolved from:
Answer: B. the first pair of gill arches
124. Gnathostomata are divided into how many classes?
Answer: C. Six
125. Cartilaginous fishes belong to class:
Answer: B. Chondrichthyes
126. An example of Chondrichthyes is:
Answer: C. Dogfish shark, skate, ray
127. Chondrichthyes have the mouth:
Answer: B. ventral
128. Bony fishes belong to class:
Answer: B. Osteichthyes
129. The respiration in bony fishes is by gills covered by:
Answer: B. operculum
130. Labeo rohita (Rohu) is a:
Answer: B. bony fish
131. Latimeria is a:
Answer: B. lobe-finned fish, a living fossil
132. Amphibians evolved from:
Answer: D. lobe-finned bony fishes with lungs
133. The first tetrapods were:
Answer: B. amphibians
134. The body of amphibians is divided into:
Answer: B. head and trunk only
135. The heart of amphibians is:
Answer: B. three chambered
136. Respiration in adult amphibians is by:
Answer: B. lungs and skin
137. Amphibians are:
Answer: B. poikilothermic (ectotherms)
138. Amphibians are:
Answer: B. anamniotes (without amnion)
139. Caecilians are:
Answer: C. limbless amphibians
140. Which is an amphibian?
Answer: C. Frog, toad or salamander
141. Amphibians are not a very successful group because they depend on water for:
Answer: B. habitat, reproduction and development
142. Skin of reptiles is:
Answer: C. rough, cornified and dry
143. The heart of most reptiles is:
Answer: C. incompletely four chambered
144. Which reptile has a completely four-chambered heart?
Answer: D. Crocodile
145. Reptiles are:
Answer: B. ectothermic (poikilothermic)
146. The three extra-embryonic membranes of reptiles are:
Answer: B. amnion, allantois and chorion
147. The fertilization in reptiles is:
Answer: B. internal
148. Reptiles lay eggs which are covered by:
Answer: C. leathery or limy shell
149. Birds have the forelimbs modified into:
Answer: B. wings
150. Birds have:
Answer: B. a horny beak and no teeth
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