Multiple Choice Questions

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Third cleavage of frog's development is

  • equatorial

  • vertical

  • latitudinal

  • none of these


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latitudinal

First and second cleavage in frog are holoblastic, complete, equal, vertical, whereas third cleavage is holoblastic, complete, unequal, latitudinal or horizontal and near the animal pole. It results in the formation of 8 cells of three are black micromeres which have less or no yolk, so divide faster and 4 are colourless macromeres


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Which of the following assists in the locomotion of the organism stated

  • Epithelium of' Pheretima

  • Trichocysts of Paramecium

  • Pedicellaria of Star fish

  • Posterior sucker of Hirudinaria 


Which cells are found only in sponges?

  • Amoeboid cells

  • Choanocytes

  • Pigment cells

  • Gland cells


Which of the following is not an insect?

  • Locust

  • Lepisma

  • Termites

  • Spider


The red colour of 'red sea' is due to which of the following blue-green algae?

  • Chlamydomonas nivalis

  • Anabaena

  • Microcystis

  • Trichodesmium


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In frog, the vertebra with an anterior convex surface (i.e., double convexties) is

  • atlas

  • urostyle

  • 8th vertebra

  • 9th vertebra


The main excretory organ of prawn is

  • green gland

  • flame cell

  • Malphigian tubule

  • nephridia


What is left when bath sponges dries up

  • Spicules

  • Spongin fibres

  • Tentacles

  • Holdfast


A definite number of segments are found in

  • slug

  • earthworm

  • leech

  • tapeworm


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The scientist, who described the birds as glorified reptiles, was

  • Romer

  • Huxley

  •  Mendel

  • Robert Hooke


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