Multiple Choice Questions

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Which one is uricotelic ?

  • Frog and toads

  • Lizards and birds/cockroach

  • Cattle, monkey and man

  • Molluscs and teleost fishes


B.

Lizards and birds/cockroach

Uricotelic organisms are the organism that excrete nitrogen mostly in the form of uric acid. Animals that live in dry (arid) conditions are uricotelic. Uric acid is the main excretory nitrogenous product, discharge in solid form in uricotelic animals. Eg, Cartilaginous fishe, bony fish, amphibians and mammals.


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Apis dorsata refers to

  • rock bee

  • little bee

  • Indian bee

  • European bee


During the conduction of nerve impulse, the action potential is the result of movement of

  • Na+ from intracellular fluid to extracellular fluid

  • Na+ from extracellular fluid to intracellular fluid

  • Na+ towards both directions

  • None of the above


ADH controls water permeability of

  • collecting tube

  • distal convoluted tubule

  • proximal convoluted tubule

  • bowman's capsule


Which are the longest cells in the body of man ?

  • Muscle cells of legs

  • Bone cells

  • Nerve cells

  • None of the above


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Flying fish is

  • Torpedo

  • Scoliodon

  • Anguilla

  • Exocoetus


Which of the following is not a character of Chordata?

  • Dorsal tubular nerve cord

  • Pharyngeal gill slits

  • Presence of notochord

  • Presence of spinal cord


Vitamin essential for proper functioning of liver and clotting of blood is

  • Vitamin- K

  • Vitamin- A

  • Vitamin- E

  • Vitamin- B12


Salamandra atra is

  • ovoviviparous

  • oviparous

  • sexuaily sterile

  • parthenogenetic


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The sliding filament theory of muscle contraction was proposed by

  • A.F. Huxley and A.P. Pullman

  • A.F. Huxley and H.E. Huxley

  • B. Pullman and A.F. Huxley

  • A. Pullman and E. Pullman