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A jawless fish, which lays eggs in fresh water and whose ammocoetes larvae after metamorphosis return to the ocean is:

  • Eptatretus

  • Myxine

  • Neomyxine

  • Neomyxine


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Neomyxine

Petromyzon(the lamprey) belongs to the section Agnatha of the sub-phylum-Vertebrata. They have long, greenish brown, cylindrical body with smooth scaleless, slimy skin, jawless mouth, etc. They lay eggs in freshwater but their ammocoete larvae(lower) after metamorphosis return to the ocean. 

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The chitinous exoskeleton of arthropods is formed by the polymerisation of

  • Keratin sulphate and chondraitin sulphate

  • D-glucosamine

  • N-acetyl glucosamine

  • N-acetyl glucosamine


A senentary sea anemone gets attached to the shell lining of hermit crab. The association is 

  • ectoparasitism

  • symbiosis

  • commensalism

  • commensalism


Metagenesis refers to

  • Presence of different morphic forms

  • Alternation of generation between asexual and sexual phases of an organism

  • Occurrence of a drastic change in form during post-embyonic development

  • Occurrence of a drastic change in form during post-embyonic development


Five Kingdom system of classification suggested by RH Whittaker is not based on

  • presence or absence of a well-defined nucleus

  • mode of reproduction

  • Mode of nutrition

  • Mode of nutrition


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