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(a) The Larva of Scoliodon exists
(b) Lateral line is absent in Bangarus
(c) Air bladder is present in Betta
(d) All Chordates are deuterostomes
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Answer: (a) The Larva of Scoliodon exists
Explanation:
1. Scoliodon (a shark) has no larval stage, so the statement is not correct.
Teacher's Note:
1. Learn each phylum by level of organisation, symmetry, germ layers, coelom type and one distinguishing feature.
2. Examples help: Porifera Spongilla, Cnidaria Hydra, Platyhelminthes Taenia, Aschelminthes Ascaris, Annelida Nereis, Arthropoda Apis, Mollusca Pila, Echinodermata Asterias.
(a) Neophron
(b) Aptenodytes
(c) Psittacula
(d) Corvus
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Answer: (b) Aptenodytes
Explanation:
1. Aptenodytes (penguin) is flightless, unlike the other birds.
Teacher's Note:
1. Chordates are separated into protochordates and vertebrates, and vertebrates into Agnatha and Gnathostomata.
2. For classes of vertebrates, compare heart chambers, skin covering, body temperature and mode of development.
(a) A, B
(b) B, C
(c) A, D
(d) C, D
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Answer: (d) C, D
Explanation:
1. Birds fertilise internally and have air sacs connected to the lungs; forelimbs, not hind limbs, form wings.
Teacher's Note:
1. Pairs of animal and common name or group are frequent questions.
2. Make a list of one example for each class so you can match quickly.
(a) Struthio – Vulture
(b) Chameleon – Garden lizard
(c) Chelone – Turtle
(d) Betta – Flying fish
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Answer: (c) Chelone – Turtle
Explanation:
1. Chelone is a turtle.
Teacher's Note:
1. Learn each phylum by level of organisation, symmetry, germ layers, coelom type and one distinguishing feature.
2. Examples help: Porifera Spongilla, Cnidaria Hydra, Platyhelminthes Taenia, Aschelminthes Ascaris, Annelida Nereis, Arthropoda Apis, Mollusca Pila, Echinodermata Asterias.
(a) Hyla – Coelenterate
(b) Pteropus – Flying fish
(c) Doliolum – Protochordate
(d) Carcharodon – Bony fish
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Answer: (c) Doliolum – Protochordate
Explanation:
1. Doliolum is a protochordate (tunicate).
Teacher's Note:
1. Chordates are separated into protochordates and vertebrates, and vertebrates into Agnatha and Gnathostomata.
2. For classes of vertebrates, compare heart chambers, skin covering, body temperature and mode of development.
(a) Silk worm, Laccifer
(b) Limulus, Prawn
(c) Spider, Cyclops
(d) Apis, King crab
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Answer: (a) Silk worm, Laccifer
Explanation:
1. Insects such as silkworm and Laccifer breathe by tracheae.
Teacher's Note:
1. Learn each phylum by level of organisation, symmetry, germ layers, coelom type and one distinguishing feature.
2. Examples help: Porifera Spongilla, Cnidaria Hydra, Platyhelminthes Taenia, Aschelminthes Ascaris, Annelida Nereis, Arthropoda Apis, Mollusca Pila, Echinodermata Asterias.
(a) All members of Bilateria are always Deuterostomes
(b) Eumetazoan are Deuterostomes
(c) All acoelomates are Diploblastic
(d) All Haemocoelomates are bilateral symmetrical
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Answer: (d) All Haemocoelomates are bilateral symmetrical
Explanation:
1. Animals with a haemocoel (arthropods and molluscs) are bilaterally symmetrical.
Teacher's Note:
1. Chordates are separated into protochordates and vertebrates, and vertebrates into Agnatha and Gnathostomata.
2. For classes of vertebrates, compare heart chambers, skin covering, body temperature and mode of development.
(a) Macropus
(b) Scaly ant eater
(c) Ornithorhynchus
(d) Ichthyophis
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Answer: (c) Ornithorhynchus
Explanation:
1. Ornithorhynchus lays eggs like a reptile but suckles young like a mammal.
Teacher's Note:
1. Pairs of animal and common name or group are frequent questions.
2. Make a list of one example for each class so you can match quickly.
(a) B, D
(b) A, B
(c) C, D
(d) A, D
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Answer: (a) B, D
Explanation:
1. Ctenophores are free swimming with no cnidocytes and arthropod exoskeleton is chitinous, so B and D are false.
Teacher's Note:
1. Learn each phylum by level of organisation, symmetry, germ layers, coelom type and one distinguishing feature.
2. Examples help: Porifera Spongilla, Cnidaria Hydra, Platyhelminthes Taenia, Aschelminthes Ascaris, Annelida Nereis, Arthropoda Apis, Mollusca Pila, Echinodermata Asterias.
(a) Protozoans are mostly heterotrophic animals
(b) Water enters inside the body through the osculum in sponges.
(c) Ctenophores are fresh water animals
(d) All parasites are triploblastic
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Answer: (a) Protozoans are mostly heterotrophic animals
Explanation:
1. Protozoans are mostly heterotrophic.
Teacher's Note:
1. Pairs of animal and common name or group are frequent questions.
2. Make a list of one example for each class so you can match quickly.
(a) A and B
(b) B and C
(c) B and D
(d) A and D
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Answer: (c) B and D
Explanation:
1. Roundworms are mostly endoparasites and have a complete alimentary canal, so B and D are incorrect.
Teacher's Note:
1. Learn each phylum by level of organisation, symmetry, germ layers, coelom type and one distinguishing feature.
2. Examples help: Porifera Spongilla, Cnidaria Hydra, Platyhelminthes Taenia, Aschelminthes Ascaris, Annelida Nereis, Arthropoda Apis, Mollusca Pila, Echinodermata Asterias.
(a) Gills of the bony fishes are covered by operculum
(b) Alimentary canal of amphibian opens outside through anus at posterior end
(c) Crocodile has three chambered heart
(d) Birds are poikilotherm animals
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Answer: (a) Gills of the bony fishes are covered by operculum
Explanation:
1. Bony fish gills are covered by an operculum.
Teacher's Note:
1. Chordates are separated into protochordates and vertebrates, and vertebrates into Agnatha and Gnathostomata.
2. For classes of vertebrates, compare heart chambers, skin covering, body temperature and mode of development.
(a) Liver fluke
(b) Tape worm
(c) Filarial worm
(d) Sand worm
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Answer: (b) Tape worm
Explanation:
1. Tapeworm has a segmented body (proglottids).
Teacher's Note:
1. Learn each phylum by level of organisation, symmetry, germ layers, coelom type and one distinguishing feature.
2. Examples help: Porifera Spongilla, Cnidaria Hydra, Platyhelminthes Taenia, Aschelminthes Ascaris, Annelida Nereis, Arthropoda Apis, Mollusca Pila, Echinodermata Asterias.
(a) Parapodia - Leech
(b) Flagella - Ascaris
(c) Archacocyte - Obelia
(d) Antenna - Anophelese
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Answer: (d) Antenna - Anophelese
Explanation:
1. Anopheles bears a pair of antennae like all insects.
Teacher's Note:
1. Pairs of animal and common name or group are frequent questions.
2. Make a list of one example for each class so you can match quickly.
(a) Cnidaria
(b) Ctenophora
(c) Platyhelminthes
(d) Aschelminthes
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Answer: (d) Aschelminthes
Explanation:
1. Aschelminthes are pseudocoelomate.
Teacher's Note:
1. Learn each phylum by level of organisation, symmetry, germ layers, coelom type and one distinguishing feature.
2. Examples help: Porifera Spongilla, Cnidaria Hydra, Platyhelminthes Taenia, Aschelminthes Ascaris, Annelida Nereis, Arthropoda Apis, Mollusca Pila, Echinodermata Asterias.
(a) Polyp is asexual stage
(b) Photosynthesis take place in Englena during day time
(c) Sleeping sickness is caused by Leishmania
(d) Tentacles are locomotory organ of coelenterates
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Answer: (c) Sleeping sickness is caused by Leishmania
Explanation:
1. Sleeping sickness is caused by Trypanosoma; Leishmania causes kala azar.
Teacher's Note:
1. Chordates are separated into protochordates and vertebrates, and vertebrates into Agnatha and Gnathostomata.
2. For classes of vertebrates, compare heart chambers, skin covering, body temperature and mode of development.
(a) A and B
(b) B and C
(c) A and C
(d) B and D
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Answer: (d) B and D
Explanation:
1. Hemichordates are triploblastic and excrete through the proboscis gland.
Teacher's Note:
1. Pairs of animal and common name or group are frequent questions.
2. Make a list of one example for each class so you can match quickly.
(a) Hemichordata
(b) Urochordata
(c) Cephalochordata
(d) Vertebrata
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Answer: (c) Cephalochordata
Explanation:
1. Cephalochordata (Branchiostoma) keep the notochord throughout life.
Teacher's Note:
1. Learn each phylum by level of organisation, symmetry, germ layers, coelom type and one distinguishing feature.
2. Examples help: Porifera Spongilla, Cnidaria Hydra, Platyhelminthes Taenia, Aschelminthes Ascaris, Annelida Nereis, Arthropoda Apis, Mollusca Pila, Echinodermata Asterias.
(a) Honey bee
(b) Silk worm
(c) Scorpion
(d) Grass hopper
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Answer: (c) Scorpion
Explanation:
1. Scorpion breathes by book lungs.
Teacher's Note:
1. Chordates are separated into protochordates and vertebrates, and vertebrates into Agnatha and Gnathostomata.
2. For classes of vertebrates, compare heart chambers, skin covering, body temperature and mode of development.
(a) Ophiura - Sea lily
(b) Octopus - Cuttle fish
(c) Torpedo - Electric ray
(d) Aptenodytes - Ostrich
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Answer: (c) Torpedo - Electric ray
Explanation:
1. Torpedo is the electric ray.
Teacher's Note:
1. Pairs of animal and common name or group are frequent questions.
2. Make a list of one example for each class so you can match quickly.
(a) A and C
(b) B and D
(c) C and D
(d) A and B
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Answer: (d) A and B
Explanation:
1. Chondrichthyes and Amphibia are cold blooded.
Teacher's Note:
1. Learn each phylum by level of organisation, symmetry, germ layers, coelom type and one distinguishing feature.
2. Examples help: Porifera Spongilla, Cnidaria Hydra, Platyhelminthes Taenia, Aschelminthes Ascaris, Annelida Nereis, Arthropoda Apis, Mollusca Pila, Echinodermata Asterias.
(a) Pigeon
(b) Ostrich
(c) Crow
(d) Peacock
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Answer: (b) Ostrich
Explanation:
1. Ostrich is a flightless bird.
Teacher's Note:
1. Chordates are separated into protochordates and vertebrates, and vertebrates into Agnatha and Gnathostomata.
2. For classes of vertebrates, compare heart chambers, skin covering, body temperature and mode of development.
(a) Presence of placoid scales
(b) Notochord present whole life
(c) Three chambered heart
(d) Sexes are separate
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Answer: (c) Three chambered heart
Explanation:
1. Cartilaginous fishes have a two chambered heart, so three chambered is not a feature.
Teacher's Note:
1. Pairs of animal and common name or group are frequent questions.
2. Make a list of one example for each class so you can match quickly.
(a) Jumping
(b) Saltatorial
(c) Crawling
(d) None of the above
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Answer: (c) Crawling
Explanation:
1. Reptiles crawl (hence the name Reptilia).
Teacher's Note:
1. Chordates are separated into protochordates and vertebrates, and vertebrates into Agnatha and Gnathostomata.
2. For classes of vertebrates, compare heart chambers, skin covering, body temperature and mode of development.
(a) Order
(b) Family
(c) Class
(d) None of the above
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Answer: (c) Class
Explanation:
1. Monkey, lion, bat and kangaroo are all mammals (same class) but different orders.
Teacher's Note:
1. Learn each phylum by level of organisation, symmetry, germ layers, coelom type and one distinguishing feature.
2. Examples help: Porifera Spongilla, Cnidaria Hydra, Platyhelminthes Taenia, Aschelminthes Ascaris, Annelida Nereis, Arthropoda Apis, Mollusca Pila, Echinodermata Asterias.
A. Spongocoel: (i) Arthropoda
B. Dorsoventrally flattened body: (ii) Cnidaria
C. Coelenteron: (iii) Porifera
D. Chitinous exoskeleton: (iv) Platyhelminthes
(a) A-iii, B-iv, C-i, D-ii
(b) A-iv, B-iii, C-ii, D-i
(c) A-iii, B-iv, C-ii, D-i
(d) A-ii, B-iv, C-iii, D-i
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Answer: (c) A-iii, B-iv, C-ii, D-i
Explanation:
1. Spongocoel belongs to Porifera, a flattened body to Platyhelminthes, coelenteron to Cnidaria and a chitinous exoskeleton to Arthropoda.
Teacher's Note:
1. Learn each phylum by level of organisation, symmetry, germ layers, coelom type and one distinguishing feature.
2. Examples help: Porifera Spongilla, Cnidaria Hydra, Platyhelminthes Taenia, Aschelminthes Ascaris, Annelida Nereis, Arthropoda Apis, Mollusca Pila, Echinodermata Asterias.
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