Biology

Animal Kingdom

Question:

Name the animal, which exhibits the phenomenon of bioluminescence.
Mention the phylum to which it belongs.

Answer:

Pleurobrachia exhibits the phenomenon of bioluminescence i.e., phenomenon of emission of light by living organisms. It belongs to the Phylum Ctenophora.

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Animal Kingdom

Q 1.

If you are given a specimen, what are the steps that you would follow to classify it?

Q 2.

What is the role of feathers?

Q 3.

There has been an increase in the number of chambers in heart during evolution of vertebrates. Give the names of the class of vertebrates having two, three or four-chambered heart.

Q 4.

Which group of chordates possess sucking and circular mouth without jaws?

Q 5.

Sort out the animals on the basis of their symmetry (radial or bilateral) coelenterates, ctenophores, annelids, arthropods, and echinoderms.

Q 6.

Give one example each for an animal possessing placoid scales and that with cycloid scales.

Q 7.

There has been an increase in the number of chambers in heart during evolution of vertebrates. Give the names of the class of vertebrates having two, three or four-cham-bered heart.

Q 8.

Match the following and write correct choice in space provided.

Animal Characteristics
a. Pila (i) Jointed appendages
b. Cockroach (ii) Perching
c. Asterias . (iii) Water vascular system
d. Torpedo (iv) Electric organ
e. Parrot (v) Presence of shell
f. Dog fish (vi) Placoid scales

Q 9.

Fill up the blank spaces appropriately
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Q 10.

Mention two modifications in reptiles required for terrestrial mode of life.

Q 11.

Match the following list of animals with their level of organization.

Division of Labour Animal
A. Organ level (i) Pheretima
B. Cellular aggregate level (ii) Fasciola
C. Tissue level (iii) Spongilla
D. Organ system level (iv) Obelia

Choose the correct match showing division of labour with animal example.

  • B—(i), C—(ii), D—(iii), A—(iv)
  • B—(i), D—(ii), C—(iii), A—(iv)
  • D—(i), A—(ii), B—(iii), C—(iv)
  • A—(i), D—(ii), C—(iii), B—(iv)

Q 12.

Write one example each of the following in the space provided.
(a) Cold blooded animal_______
(b) Warm blooded animal_______
(c) Animal possessing dry and cornified skin_______
(d) Dioecious animal_______

Q 13.

Could the number of eggs or young ones produced by an oviparous and viviparous mother be equal? Why?

Q 14.

Match the following.
Animals Locomotory Organ
(a) Octopus      (i) Limbs
(b) Crocodile   (ii) Comb plates
(c) Catla             (iii) Tentacles
(d) Ctenoplana (iv) Fins

Q 15.

What are the difficulties that you would face in classification of animals, if common fundamental features are not taken into account?

Q 16.

Endoparasites are found inside the host body. Mention the special structure, possessed by these and which enables them to survive in those conditions.

Q 17.

Identify the phylum in which adults exhibit radial symmetry and larva exhibit bilateral symmetry.

Q 18.

How useful is the study of the nature of body cavity and coelom in the classification of animals?

Q 19.

Endoparasites are found inside the host body. Mention the special structure, possessed by these and which enables them to survive in those conditions.

Q 20.

What is the role of feathers?

Q 21.

Mention one example each for animals with chitinous exoskeleton and those covered by a calcareous shell.

Q 22.

All vertebrates are chordates but all chordates are not vertebrates”. Justify the statement.

Q 23.

Name
(a) A limbless animal
(b) A cold blooded animal
(c) A warm blooded animal
(d) An animal possessing dry and cornified skin
(e) An animal having canal system and spicules
(f) An animal with cnidoblasts

Q 24.

What is the role of radula in molluscs?

Q 25.

Mention two similarities between
(a) Aves and mammals
(b) A frog and crocodile
(c) A turtle and Pila

Q 26.

Match the following and write correct choice in space provided
Animal                               Characteristics
(a) Pila                               (i)  Jointed appendages
(b) Cockroach                 (ii) Perching
(c) Asterias                      (iii) Water vascular system
(d) Torpedo                     (iv) Electric organ
(e) Parrot                           (v) Presence of shell
(f) Dogfish                        (vi) Placoidscales
(a)______, (b)______, (c)______, (d)______,
(e)______, (f)______

Q 27.

Which group of chordates possess sucking and circular mouth without jaws?

Q 28.

Mammals are most adapted among the vertebrates. Elaborate.

Q 29.

Differentiate between a diploblastic and a triploblastic animal.

Q 30.

Sort out the animals on the basis of their symmetry (radial or bilateral) coelenterates, ctenophores, annelids, arthropods, and echinoderms.

Q 31.

Name the animal, which exhibits the phenomenon of bioluminescence. Mention the phylum to which it belongs.

Q 32.

Differentiate between a diploblastic and a triploblastic animal.

Q 33.

Give an example for each of the following:
a. A viviparous animal
b. A fish possessing a poison sting
c. A fish possessing an electric organ
d. An organ, which regulates buoyancy
e. Animal, which exhibits alternation of generation
f. Oviparous animal with mammary gland.

Q 34.

Mammals are most adapted among the vertebrates. Elaborate.

Q 35.

Give three major differences between chordates and non-chordates and draw a schematic sketch of a chordate showing those features.

Q 36.

Give an example for each of the following
(a) A viviparous animal
(b) A fish possessing a poison sting
(c) A fish possessing an electric organ
(d) An organ, which regulates buoyancy
(e) Animal, which exhibits alternation of generation
(f) Oviparous animal with mammary gland

Q 37.

Provide appropriate technical term in the space provided.
a. Blood-filled cavity in arthropods _________
b. Free-floating form of cnidaria _________
c. Stinging organ of jelly fishes _________
d. Lateral appendages in aquatic annelids _________

Q 38.

Prepare a list of some animals that are found parasitic on human beings.

Q 39.

Fill up the blank spaces appropriately.

Phylum/

Class

Excretory

Organ

Circulatory

Organ

Respiratory

Organ

Arthropoda A B . Lungs/Gills/ Tracheal System
C Nephridia Closed Skin/Parapodia
D Metanephridia Open E
Amphibia F Closed Lung

Q 40.

Match the following:

a. Amphibia (i) Air bladder
b. Mammals (ii) Cartilagenous notochord
c. Chondrichthyes (hi) Mammary glands
d. Osteichthyes (iv) Pneumatic bones
e. Cyclostomata (v) Dual habitat
f. Aves (vi) Sucking and circular mouth without jaws

 

Q 41.

What is metagenesis? Mention an example which exhibits this phenomenon.

Q 42.

What is the role of radula in molluscs?

Q 43.

What is the importance of pneumatic bones and air sacs in Aves?

Q 44.

Comment upon the habitats and external features of animals belonging to class, amphibia and reptilia.

Q 45.

What is the relationship between germinal layers and the formation of body cavity in case of coelomate, acoelomates and pseudocoelomates?

Q 46.

Write one example each of the following in the space provided.
a. Cold blooded animal
b. Warm blooded animal
c. Animal possessing dry and comified skin
d. Dioecious animal

Q 47.

Differentiate between:
a. Open and closed circulatory system .
b. Oviparity and viviparity
c. Direct and indirect development
d. Aceolomate and pseudocoelomate
e. Notochord and nerve cord
f. Polyp and medusa

Q 48.

Body cavity is the cavity present between body wall and gut wall. In some animals the body cavity is not lined by mesoderm. Such animals are called (a) Acoelomate (b) Pseudocoelomate .
(c) Coelomate (d) Haemocoelomate

Q 49.

Identify the phylum in which adults exhibit radial symmetry and larva exhibit bilateral symmetry.

Q 50.

Give an example for the following:
a. Roundworm
b. Fish possessing poison sting
c. A limbless reptile/amphibian .
d. An oviparous mammal