Multiple Choice Questions

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

  • Romer

  • Huxley

  •  Mendel

  • Robert Hooke


B.

Huxley

Huxley stated that birds are glorified reptiles. The missing link Archaeopteryx is a fossil lizard bird. It was founded by Andreas Wagner (1861) from upper Jurassic limestone rocks of Solenbofen in Bowaria, Germany


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Third cleavage of frog's development is

  • equatorial

  • vertical

  • latitudinal

  • none of these


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

  • atlas

  • urostyle

  • 8th vertebra

  • 9th vertebra


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 


The main excretory organ of prawn is

  • green gland

  • flame cell

  • Malphigian tubule

  • nephridia


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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


A definite number of segments are found in

  • slug

  • earthworm

  • leech

  • tapeworm


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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What is left when bath sponges dries up

  • Spicules

  • Spongin fibres

  • Tentacles

  • Holdfast


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