Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Mock Test - 01 - Part II

Question : 91
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How many of the following statements can be considered as defining feature of all life forms?
A. Increase in mass of body from inside due to synthesis of living substances only.
B. Growth and reproduction are mutually inclusive events for bacteria, protists and algae.
C. Intrinsic growth due to deposition of apoplasmic and symplasmic substances.
D. Awareness in organisms for their surroundings.

Options:

Four

Three
Two

One
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Question : 92
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Scientific name of edible mushroom is based on agreed principles and criteria which are mentioned in
Options:
ICBN

ICNCP

ICNB

ICZN
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Question : 93
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Which of the following statements justify that living organisms are self-regulating, interactive systems and it results in emergent properties at higher level of organisation?
A. Properties of tissues arise at the result of interaction in their constituent cells.
B. Properties of cell organelles are present in their molecular constituents.
C. They are capable of responding external stimuli.
Options:

All are correct
A & C are correct

B & C are incorrect

A & B are incorrect
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Question : 94
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Select the taxa of same category level from the given options
Options:

Man, Cat, Animals and Insect

Potato, Sweet potato, Mango and Dicots

Felidae, Carnivora, Primata
Moss, Green algae, Dicots and Mammals
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Question : 95
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Which of the following pair is incorrectly matched?
Options:

Mangifera indica _ Species

Hominidae _ Family
Diptera _ Class

Gymnospermae _ Division
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Question : 96
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The aggregates of potato and sweet potato families into next higher category is mainly based upon
Options:

Vegetative characters

Vegetative and floral characters
Floral characters

Colour, size and number of leaves
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Question : 97
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Which of the following will have more number of common characters?
Options:

A group of related genera
A group of related species

A group of related family

A group of related order
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Question : 98
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The most obvious and technically complicated feature is  present in .
Options:

A _ Growth, B _ Higher plants and animals

A _ Reproduction, B _ Eukaryotes

A _ Self-consciousness, B _ Multicellular organisms
A _ Consciousness, B _ Prokaryotes and eukaryotes
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Question : 99
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Kinds and diversity of organisms alongwith their relationship are dealt with
Options:

Classical taxonomy

Classification

Morphotaxonomy
Systematics
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Question : 100
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Select correctly matched pair from the given options
Options:

Polytypic genus _ Homo sapiens

Polytypic species _ Solanum melongena
Polytypic genus _ Panthera

Biological concept of species _ Mule
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Question : 101
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Animals like fishes, amphibians, reptiles and birds constitute the next higher category called
Options:

Class
Phylum

Division

More than one option is correct
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Question : 102
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With respect to following taxonomic aids, how many are associated with preservation of plants [A] and animals [B]?

Options:

A _ (ii), (iii), (v); B _ (i), (ii)

A _ (ii), (v); B _ (ii), (iv)
A _ (ii), (v); B _ (ii)

A _ (v); B _ (i), (ii)
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Question : 103
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In taxonomic keys
Options:

The pair of contrasting characters is called lead
Statements are analytical in nature

Each character has generally more than two choices

More than one option is correct
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Question : 104
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Select correct choice for the conservation strategies of live specimens where each specimen is labelled indicating its scientific name and family name.
Options:

Herbarium

Museum
NBRI

Zoological park
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Question : 105
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Find correct match.
Column I Column II
a. Index to the plant (i) Manuals species in a particular area
b. Alphabetical (ii) Monographs arrangement of species
c. Information of any (iii) Catalogues one taxon
d. Information for (iv) Flora
identification of
names of species
found in an area

Options:
a(iv), b(iii), c(ii), d(i)

a(iv), b(ii), c(iii), d(i)

a(iv), b(iii), c(i), d(ii)

a(iii), b(iv), c(ii), d(i)
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Question : 106
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Unicellular prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms with cell wall are kept together in the same kingdom _____ in ______ classification.
Options:
Plantae; Linnaeus

Protista; Whittaker's

Protista; Copeland's

Plantae; Copeland's
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Question : 107
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Select the organism with loose tissue level body organisation for the box.

Options:
(iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

(iii), (iv), (vi), (ix)

(i), (iii), (vii), (viii)

(iv), (vii), (ix)
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Question : 108
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The kingdom Monera includes
Options:

Unicellular and multicellular microorganisms with simplest metabolism

The most ancient microorganisms which are nutritionally heterotrophs only
Most ancient, the smallest, and most abundant microorganisms.

Only unicellular photosynthetic microorganisms.
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Question : 109
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Purple sulphur bacteria are nutritionally
Options:

Chemotrophic autotrophs
Photolithotrophs

Photoorganotrophs

Chemolithotrophs
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Question : 110
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Which of the following is capable of switching over to anaerobic mode to get energy for its survival?
Options:

Obligate anaerobe like Bacillus subtilis

Facultative aerobes like Chlorobium
Facultative anaerobes like Pseudomonas

Facultative aerobes like Clostridium botulinum
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Question : 111
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Select incorrect match w.r.t. given organisms and their features.
Options:

Anabaena _ Specialized vegetative cell with PS I only

Chlorobium _ Anoxygenic photosynthesis
Bacillus _ Rod shape chemoautotrophic bacteria

Methanococcus _ Obligate anaerobe
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Question : 112
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Cyanobacteria are
Options:
Oxyphotobacteria having chlorophyll a similar to higher plants

Non-motile/ aflagellate in vegetative stage only

Mostly unicellular terrestrial forms

Gram positive monerans
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Question : 113
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Which of the following statement is correct for the ancient bacteria of saline habitats?
Options:

Obligate anaerobes
Heterotrophic mode of nutrition

Are able to produce methane

Muramic acid is present in cell wall
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Question : 114
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Photosynthetic protists that float passively on water surface show/are
Options:

Stiff cellulosic plates on cell wall

Thick overlapping silicified shells
Chrysophytes

More than one option is correct
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Question : 115
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Indestructible cell wall is due to _______ and present in ________.
Options:

Silica, Ceratium and Gymnodinium

Cellulose, Physarum

Pectin, Diatoms
Silica, Melosira
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Question : 116
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How many protistans have body covering of pellicle?

Options:
Four

Five

Three

One
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Question : 117
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"Slime Moulds  Fruiting bodies".
In the above mentioned incomplete statement, labelling represents

Options:

A- Aggregation, B- Plasmodium, C- Suitable conditions

A- Suitable conditions, B- Plasmodium, C- Aggregation
A- Aggregation, B- Plasmodium, C- Differentiation

A- Suitable conditions, B- Pseudoplasmodium, C- Aggregation
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Question : 118
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Organism which forms red tide also show
Options:

Complementary chromatic adaptations
Spinning movement

Reserve food as leucosin

Nitrogen fixation
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Question : 119
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The mode of nutrition in protists group as a known primitive relative of multicellular animals, is
Options:

Predation and chemoautotrophic

Parasitism and commensalism
Predation and parasitic

Predation and holophytic
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Question : 120
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Monerans with smallest living cells
Options:
Are pathogens of plants and animals

Lack cell wall and are sensitive to penicillin

Obligate parasites only

Cannot survive without oxygen
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Question : 121
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The unique kingdom of heterotrophic organisms with loose tissue level organisation shows
(i) Diversity in habitat
(ii) Diversity in morphology of mycelium
(iii) NAG polymer in cell wall
(iv) Degeneration of sex organs from lower to higher group
(v) Optimum growth in cool and humid places.

Options:

All are correct

(i), (ii), (iii) & (v) are correct

(iii) & (v) are incorrect
Only (v) is incorrect
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Question : 122
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Karyogamy is delayed after plasmogamy in the sexual life cycle of how many members?

Options:
Five

Six

Four

Three
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Question : 123
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Plasmogamy by fusion of the protoplasm of gametangia can be observed in
Options:
Rhizopus and Mucor

Pythium and Agaricus

Trichoderma and Puccinia

Penicillium and Alternaria
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Question : 124
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Highly resistant spores with ability to survive for many years even under adverse conditions are found in
Options:

Protists as whirling whips

Bioluminescent protists
Protists showing plant, animal and fungi characters

Protists having chlorophyll-b
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Question : 125
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Ray fungi are/ have
(a) Mycobacteria
(b) Intermediate position between bacteria and fungi
(c) Mycolic acid in cell wall
(d) Largely decomposers

Options:
All are correct

Only (a), (b), (c) are correct

Only (a) & (b) are correct

Only (a), (b), & (d) are correct
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Question : 126
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Pathogen of sleeping sickness disease
Options:

Possess no motile structure

s sporozoan
Is flagellated protozoan

Is amoeboid protozoan
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Question : 127
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How many statements are correct for truffles and morels?
(i) They have septate monokaryotic mycelium
(ii) Reproduce asexually by nonmotile endogenous spores
(iii) Produce haploid exogenous sexual spores arranged in an orderly manner
(iv) Their fruiting bodies are edible

Options:

Four

Three
Two

One
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Question : 128
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Consider the statements :
(i) Organisms are known by only vegetative or asexual stage.
(ii) Most of the members are decomposers of litter.
These statements are true for

Options:

Phycomycetes

Ascomycetes

Basidiomycetes
Deuteromycetes
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Question : 129
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Virus and viroids have no position in five kingdom system because they
Options:

Are causal organism of several diseases

Don't have the ability to multiply
Are noncellular structure

Are obligate parasites
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Question : 130
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How many statements/ features are correct for T4, phage or T even-phage?
(a) They have non-prismatic polygonal head and envelope
(b) Contractile tail
(c) Tail sheath present
(d) Tail fibers are six as locomotory structure
(e) Nucleic acid as double stranded circular DNA

Options:
(b) & (c)

(a), (b), (c) & (d)

(b), (c), (d) & (e)

All correct, except (d)
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Question : 131
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Viruses infecting plants have genetic material usually as
Options:

ssDNA

dsDNA
ssRNA

dsRNA
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Question : 132
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Causal organism of PSTD
Options:

Possess free RNA of high molecular weight

Was discovered by T.O. Diener as inert protein crystal
Lacks protein coat

Has double stranded RNA of low molecular weight
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Question : 133
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Dominating mycobiont and phycobiont components in lichens are respectively
Options:

Club fungi and BGA

Sac fungi and BGA
Ascomycetes and Green algae

Basidiomycetes and BGA
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Question : 134
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The fungal partner in lichens body is not concerned with
Options:

Absorption of water from wet air, dew and rain

Body structure and covering

Frutification and sex organs formation
itrogenase activity
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Question : 135
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Which of the following is not associated with ectomycorrhiza?
Options:

Wooly covering

Hartig net
VAM

Basidiomycetes
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Question : 136
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An adaptation to motile and sedentary life style is _________ and_________symmetry respectively.
Options:

Radial, bilateral
Bilateral, radial

Bilateral, asymmetric

Biradial, bilateral
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Question : 137
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A key evolutionary development seen for the first time in the sponges is
Options:

Intracellular digestion

Origin of nerve cells

Body symmetry
Multicellularity
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Question : 138
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Which of the following is true of sharks and rays?
Options:

They do not have lateral line system

Pectoral fins are well demarcated
They have placoid scales

They have five pairs of gill slits situated on the lateral sides of the body
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Question : 139
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Given below are four statements A, B, C and D. Select the option which correctly states whether they are True (T) or False (F).
A. Due to counter current exchange of gases fish gills are the most efficient of all respiratory organs
B. Fishes have lateral line sense organs on each side of the body containing a series of sensory cells to detect the vibrations generated by other fishes or objects.
C. Puffer the second most poisonous fish can swallow air or water and swell up like a puff as a mean of defense.
D. In Exocoetus the pelvic fins are modified into wing like structures, with the help of which the fish glides
A B C D

Options:

F T T T

T T F F

T T T T
T T T F
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Question : 140
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Archaeopteryx is believed to be the transition fossil between dinosaurs and birds because, like a bird Archaeopteryx had feathers and
Options:

A tail similar to that of modern birds

Scales

Presence of beak with teeth
A fused collar bone, indicating flying ability
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Question : 141
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Read the statements A and B given below:
A. In insects blood has no role in transportation of oxygen and there is no link between respiratory and circulatory systems
B. The cuticle lined `Tracheae', are the tubes carrying oxygen directly to the cells and tissues in insects
Choose the correct answer

Options:

A is correct but B is incorrect

A is incorrect but B is correct
A is correct and B is the correct explanation of it

A is correct but B is not the correct explanation of it
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Question : 142
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What evidence suggests that arthropods are closely related to annelids?
Options:

Arthropods and annelids have gills

Both groups have marine species
Metameric segmentation is present in both groups

Both have two way digestive tract
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Question : 143
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In adult insects
Options:

There are two pairs of wings attached to the abdomen

xygen is delivered throughout the body by blood
Three pairs of jointed legs are attached to thorax

There are two pairs of antennae
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Question : 144
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Key evolutionary advances of the flatworms are bilateral symmetry and
Options:

A coelom
Internal organs

One way digestive tract

Both extracellular and intracellular digestion
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Question : 145
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of amphibians (frog)?
Options:

Skin of amphibians is moist, without scales

Body is divided into head and trunk

Amphibians do not breathe the same way as other terrestrial vertebrate do. They have positive pressure breathing
Heart has two ventricles
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Question : 146
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Complete the following analogy.
Fluke: Schistosomiasis : : Filarial worm :

Options:

Trichinosis
Elephantiasis

Perianal itching

Swimmer's itch
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Question : 147
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Which of the following statement is false?
Options:

Aplysia (seahare) is a shell-less mollusc with bilateral symmetry

In salamanders, fertilisation is usually external

Male frogs can be distinguished by the presence of sound producing vocal sacs and also a copulatory pad on the first digit of the forelimbs which are absent in female frogs
Male cartilaginous fishes can be distinguished from female by the presence of claspers in pectoral fins, used in copulation
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Question : 148
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Which of the following nematode is viviparous and causes muscular pain and stiffness?
Options:

Enterobius

Ancylostoma
Trichinella

Ascaris
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Question : 149
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Members of which group along with examples illustrated are not deuterostomes?
Options:

Chordates : Scoliodon, Pristis

Echinoderms : Asterias, Echinus
Arthropods : Culex, Aedes

Hemichordates: Balanoglossus, Saccoglossus
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Question : 150
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Ornithorhynchus (platypus) differ from marsupial in that, platypus
Options:

Has external ears or pinnae

Is viviparous

Do not have mammary glands
Lay eggs
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Question : 151
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Given below are types of cells present in some animals. Each one is specialized to perform a single specific function, except
Options:

Choanocytes
Archaeocyte

Nematocysts

Gastrodermal cells
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Question : 152
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Base your answer to the question on the diagram given below
Where are the capillaries labelled X are located?

Options:

In the brain
In the gills

In muscles

In lungs
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Question : 153
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Which of the following is false w.r.t. genus name/its two characteristics/phylum?

Options:







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Question : 154
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Which of the following is incorrect w.r.t. animal/class, its circulatory system and respiratory organ?

Options:







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Question : 155
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Given below are four matching, of animals and their excretory organs
A. Pila _ Metanephridia
B. Crab _ Green glands
C. Balanoglossus _ Proboscis gland
D. Locusta _ Malpighian tubules
How many matching is/are correct?

Options:

One

Two

Three
Four
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Question : 156
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Which one of the following sets of items in options (1) to (4) is not correctly categorised with an exception in it?

Options:







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Question : 157
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Identify the animal in the photograph below. Which of the following is not a correct reason for its identification?
Reasons:

Options:

It is female Ascaris a round worm its postanal tail is straight

It is round worm which is bilaterally symmetrical
It is male Ascaris, post anal tail is curved

It is round worm with unsegmented body and complete alimentary canal
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Question : 158
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Identify A, B, C and D marked in the following chart
The correct option for A, B, C and D is

Options:







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Question : 159
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Birds and mammals share one of the common characteristics as a common feature, that is
Options:

Endoskeleton is fully ossified and the long bones are hollow with air cavities

Respiration is by lungs. Non-vascular air sacs connected to lungs supplement respiration

The digestive tract is with additional chambers, the crop and gizzard
Endothermy
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Question : 160
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Which of the following possess sucking and circular mouth without jaws? Their characteristic ammocoete larvae after metamorphosis migrate to the ocean.
Options:

Myxine
Lamprey

Both (1) & (2)

Agnatha
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Question : 161
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Which of the following is exclusively in marine water? They are without brain box and notochord extends from head to tail region and is persistent throughout their life.
Options:

Ascidia

Salpa

Doliolum
Branchiostoma
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Question : 162
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Amniotic eggs evolved as a means to__A__. It was a decisive event in the conquest of land by vertebrates. Fill in blank A
Options:

Protect the embryo from predators
Prevent the embryo from drying out

Allow respiratory gases to pass through, but retains water within the egg

Allow waste products from the embryo to be excreted
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Question : 163
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When a piece of Hemidactylus (lizard's) tail breaks off the separated portion may wiggle about forcefully. (A) How might this adaptation be an advantage for the lizard? (B) The regenerated tail is_______.
Options:

A : The movement of last frightens the predator.
B : Without tail vertebrae

A : Eating the tail provides the lizard with the energy it needs to escape.
B : With tail vertebrae
A : Predators are distracted by the wiggling tail, giving the lizard time to escape
B : Without tail vertebrae

A : The wiggling tail can injure the predator preventing it from pursuing the lizard
B : With tail vertebrae
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Question : 164
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Which of the following is not a correct match?
Options:

Fish possessing poison sting _ Trygon

A limbless amphibian _ Ichthyophis

Fish with cycloid/ctenoid scales _ Catla
Aptenodytes _ Penguin, present in Arctic region
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Question : 165
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Which one of the following is not a poisonous snake?
Options:

Naja

Bungarus

Vipera
Python
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Question : 166
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Which of the following is found in adult tunicates or sea squirts?
Options:

Notochord

Spinal cord

Cranium/brain box
Pharynx with gill slits for respiration
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Question : 167
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Complete the following analogy
Song : Syrinx : : Pigeon's milk : :

Options:
Crop

Proventriculus

Anterior air sacs

Gizzard
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Question : 168
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Blood in the circulatory system of an annelid, example earthworm,
Options:

Flows into its body cavity

Delivers carbon dioxide to its tissue

Passes through gills
Stays within the circulatory system
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Question : 169
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Which of the following does adult chordates and adult echinoderms have in common?
Options:

A non-segmented body
An internal skeleton

A water vascular system

Bilateral symmetry
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Question : 170
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The type of body cavity seen in the roundworms is called
Options:

Schizocoelom, formed by splitting up to mesoderm filled with coelomic fluid

Enterocoelom
Pseudocoelom, partially open, fluid filled body cavity which develops from the blastocoel

Acoelomate
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Question : 171
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Ctenophores differ from the cnidarians in having
Options:

Both extracellular and intracellular digestion

Tissue level organisation and radial symmetry
Only sexual reproduction

Larval stage in the life cycle and presence of metagenesis
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Question : 172
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The echinoderms that lack distinct arms are the
Options:

Brittle stars

Sea stars
Sea urchins

Asteroidea
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Question : 173
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Which of the following does not possess basic tissue types in the embryo?
Options:

Hydra
Sycon

Jellyfish

Pleurobrachia
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Question : 174
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Mark the odd one
Options:

Common toad

Surinam toad
Horned toad

African toad
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Question : 175
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Endothermic metabolism permits mammals to do all of the following, except
Options:

Live in very cold climates

Generate heat internally

Run or fly for long distances
Eat less than ectotherms
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Question : 176
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Which of the following animals illustrated below is/are dioecious, coelomate, with internal fertilisation and closed circulatory system?
A.  B. 
C.  D. 

Options:

A only

A and C

B and C
D only
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Question : 177
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Base your answer to question on the following diagram.
Letters A _ D represent evolutionary milestones in the evolution of the animal body. A, B, C and D respectively indicate the presence of

Options:

Multicellularity, tissues, triploblastic, segmentation

Tissue, protostomic, body cavity, segmentation
Tissue, bilateral symmetry, body cavity, segmentation

Tissue, radial symmetry, coelom, deuterostomic
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Question : 178
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Which of the following is not correct comparison between Locusta (A), and Prawn (B), illustrated in the following diagram?
(A)  (B) 
Options:







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Question : 179
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Which one of the following is incorrect w.r.t. phylum its symmetry, body plan and example mentioned?

Options:







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Question : 180
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Which of the following group is composed of mammals capable of true flight?
Options:

Flying lemurs

Cetaceans
Chiroptera

Sirenia