A lizard-like member of reptilia is sitting on a tree with its tail coiled around a twig. This animal could be

• Hemidactylus showing sexual dimorphism

• Varamus showing mimicry

• garden lizard (Calotes) showing camouflage

• Chamaeleon showing protective colouration

Which one of the following features is common in silverfish, scorpion, dragonfly and prawn?

• Two pairs of legs and segmented body

• Living chitinous cuticle and two pairs of antennae

• Jointed appendages and chitinous exoskeleton

• Closed blood carcular system

Which one feature is common to leech, cockroach and scorpion

• Nephridia

• Cephalisation

• Ventral nerve cord

• Antenna

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Assertion : The duck-billed Platypus and the spiny ant-eater, both are egg-laying animals yet they are grouped under mammals.

Reason : Both of them have seven cervical vertebrae and 12 pairs of cranial nerves.

• If both Assertion and Reason are true and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion

• If both Assertion and Reason are true but the Reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion

• If Assertion is true but Reason is false

• If both Assertion and Reason are false

Tube-within-a-tube body plan is shown by

• coelenterates

• platyhelminthes

• aschelminthes (nemathelminthes)

• porifers

True coelom appeared first in the course of evolution in

• Aschelminthes

• Chordata

• Echinodermata

• Annelida

Shifting of ammonotelism to ureotelism is seen in

• fishes

• protopterus

• frog

• snake

Which of the following is not found in vertebrates

• Bilateral symmetry

• Gill opening

• Body scales

• Cnidoblasts

Which of the following is a viral disease in silkworm ?

• Flacherie

• Grasserie

• Muscardine

• Pebrine

Which of the following is not the example of marine fishes ?

• Labeo

• Mugil

• Hilsa

• Sardines