REPRODUCTION IN ORGANISMS 6.

Read the following statements and

choose the correct option
Statement-A : Most hermaphrodites do not
1. In Apis indica drones are produced from
reproduce by self-fertilization e.g.
unfertilized eggs and females are produced
earthworm.
from fertilized eggs during sexual
Statement-B : In earthworm, male part
reproduction. Such type of parthenogenesis
matures first i.e., protandry condition is
is known as ____
present.
(1) Arrhenotoky
(1) Both statements are incorrect
(2) Thelytoky
(2) Statement-A is correct but B is incorrect
(3) Amphitoky
(3) Statement-A is incorrect but B is
(4) Cyclic parthenogenesis
incorrect
2. Which one is a correct statement w.r.t. (4) Both statements are correct
Apis?
7. The major hormone of pro-estrous phase
(1) All males are haploid but fertile and are
is
product of parthenogenesis
(1) FSH (2) Relaxin
(2) All females are fertile diploid and product
(3) Progesterone (4) LH
of sexual reproduction
(3) All workers are fertile females
8. Which hormone which dominates during
(4) Queen is fertile female produced by
estrous phase of the estrous cycle?
haploid egg
(1) LH (2) FSH
(3) Progesterone (4) Estrogen
3. Match column 'A' with column 'B' and
select the correct options given below.
9. Which phase of estrous cycle is
Column 'A' Column 'B'
comparable to proliferative phase of
(a) Drone (i) Fertile Female
menstrual cycle?
(b) Queen (ii) Fertile male
(1) Estrous phase (2) Proestrous
(c) Scout bee (iii) Sterile female
(3) Metaestrous phase (4) Diestrous
(d) Nurse bee (iv) Collect pollen grains

(1) (a) - (ii), (b) - (i), (c) - (iv), (d) - (iii)

10. Greatest embryonic care is exhibited by
(2) (a) - (iii), (b) - (ii), (c) - (i), (d) - (iv)
(1) All chordates
(3) (a) - (iv), (b) - (iii), (c) - (ii), (d) - (i)
(2) All prototherians
(4) (a) - (i), (b) - (ii), (c) - (iii), (d) - (iv)
(3) All non-chordates
(4) All eutherians
4. Select the unisexual animal
(1) Sponges (2) Cockroach
11. The key difference between marsupials
(3) Leech (4) Earthworm
and eutherians is
(1) Marsupials possess haemochorial
5. Animal which can undergo self fertilization placenta
is (2) Eutherians lack placenta
(3) Embryo of eutherians remains attached
(1) Frog
for longer time to the placenta inside
(2) Cockroach mother’s uterus
(2) Leech
(4) Embryo of marsupials remains attached
(4) Taenia solium
for longer time to the placenta inside
mother’s uterus
 12. Terrestrial animals can exhibit (1) Elephant > Dog > Crow
(a) Oviparity
(2) Cow > Horse > Fruit fly
(b) Viviparity
(c) Ovoviviparity (3) Crow > Butterfly > Dog
(d) Aplacental viviparity
(4) Tortoise > Dog > Parrot
(1) a & b only
(2) a & c only
(3) b & c only 18. Mode of reproduction enabling creation of
(4) a, b, c & d new variants so that survival advantage is
enhanced in

13. The period from birth to the natural death (1) Gemmule formation
of an organism represent its (2) Parthenogenesis
(1) Life expectancy (2) Life span (3) Binary fission
(3) Genetic makeup (4) Growth rate (4) Sexual reproduction
14. A biological process in which an organism 19. The most vital event of sexual reproduction is
gives rise to young ones similar to itself is perhaps the
known as (1) Formation of gametes

(1) Life expectancy (2) Growth rate (2) Formation of haploid zygote
(3) Fusion of gametes
(3) Life span (4) Reproduction
(4) Transport of gametes
15. Complete the analogy w.r.t life span of
organisms. 20. Chromosome number in meiocytes of
Drosophila is 8. The chromosome number in
Crocodile : 60 years :: Parrot :________.
gametes of Musca is
(1) 15 years (2) 25 years (1) 4 (2) 12
(3) 16 (4) 6
(3) 140 years (4) 60 years

16. Read the statements regarding life span

421. Heterogametes generally differ in all, except
of organisms.
(1) Size
Statement I: Life spans of organisms are (2) Motility
necessarily correlated with their sizes. (3) Amount of cytoplasm
Statement II: No individual is immortal, (4) Ploidy level
except single-celled organisms.

(1) Both statements I & II are correct 22. If A, B and C are the approximate life spans
of horse, cow and crow in years respectively,
(2) Both statements I & II are incorrect then select the correct option
(1) A+B>C
(3) Only statement I is correct
(2) A<B+C
(4) Only statement II is correct (3) A+C=B
17. Consider the given organisms and choose (4) A+B=C
the option that correctly mention them in
descending order of their life span.
 (4) Organisms where zygote is compulsarily
formed.
23. Select the incorrect statement
(1) Clonal population comprises morphologically
28. Who among the following popularised the use
and genetically similar individuals
of embryological characters in taxonomy,
(2) Cell division is in itself a mode of reproduction emphasised the need for initiation of work on
in Pheretima and Periplaneta. artificial culture of immature embryos and rose
(3) Life spans of organisms are not necessarily to become one of the most distinguished
correlated with their sizes. botanists of the entire world?
(1) Panchanan Maheshwari
(4) The correct sequence of events during life
cycle of an organism is birth, growth and death (2) Karl Ernst von Baer
(3) M.S. Swaminathan
(4) Ernst Haeckel
24. Complete the analogy by selecting the correct
option
Sheep : Oestrous cycle : : ____ : Menstrual 2. 29. Read the following statements A and B and
cycle choose the correct answer
(1) Rattus Statement A: The period from birth to the
(2) Canis natural death of an organism represents its life
span.
(3) Macaca
Statement B: Every individual organism die
(4) Felis without fail except single-celled organisms but
species continue to exist for several thousands
of years unless threatened by natural or
25. Which of the following is true for organisms anthropogenic extinction
exhibiting external fertilization?
(1) Both statements are correct
(1) Asynchrony during laying or release of (2) Both statements are incorrect
gametes
(3) Only statement A is incorrect
(2) Gametogenesis occurs inside the body of
(4) Only statement B is incorrect
organisms
(3) Syngamy on land
30. Choose the incorrect statement w.r.t.
(4) Offsprings are not vulnerable to predators
asexual reproduction
(1) Asexual reproduction is always
uniparental
26. Select the correct statement
(2) Offspring is produced with or without
(1) Continuous breeders can exhibit menstrual the involvement of gamete formation
cycles
(3) Offspring that are produced are not
(2) Birds living in captivity in poultry farms lay identical to one another
eggs only seasonally
(4) Offspring are similar to one another
(3) Juvenile phase is of fixed duration even in and to their parents
different organisms
(4) All organisms shift to asexual method of 31. Cell division is itself a mode of
reproduction just before onset of adverse reproduction in organism which are
conditions
(1) Multicellular
(2) Immortal
27. Multiple fission is the method of reproduction in (3) Having cellular level of organisation
(1) All unicellular organisms (4) Hermaphrodite
(2) Organism that has pseudopodia
(3) Multicellular organism showing 32. Seasonal breeders are those mammals
fragmentation which exhibit ___A___ and reproduce during
___B__ in their reproductive phase.
 Choose the option which correctly fill the Statement B: During unfavourable conditions,
blanks A and B. Amoeba produces pseudopodiospores called
A B sporulation
1. Oestrus cycle Unfavourable seasons (1) Both statements A and B are correct
2. Menstrual cycle Favourable seasons (2) Both statements A and B are incorrect
3. Oestrus cycle Favourable seasons (3) Only statement A is correct
4. Menstrual cycle Unfavourable seasons (4) Only statement B is correct

33. Choose the correct statement w.r.t. oviparous

animal 37. Which of the following substances are
(1) Both fertilisation of ovum and primarily responsible for the transition between
development of zygote occurs only outside the the three phases of life in both plants and
body of females animals?
(2) Both fertilisation of ovum and (1) Enzymes
development of zygote occurs inside the body (2) Water
of females
(3) Hormones
(3) Fertilisation of ovum occurs only inside
(4) Minerals
the body of females and development of zygote
occurs outside the body of females
(4) Fertilisation of ovum may occur inside 38.Sexual reproduction is characterised by
or outside the body of females but development
of zygote always occurs outside the body of
females (1) Fusion of only male gametes
(2) Fusion of only female gametes to form
diploid zygote
34. Offspring formed by sexual reproduction exhibit
more variation than those formed by asexual (3) Fusion of both male and female
reproduction because gametes
(1) Sexual reproduction is an elaborate, (4) Fusion of only females gametes to form
complex and slow process haploid zygote
(2) Gametes involved in zygote formation
have different quantity of cytoplasm 39. Choose the incorrect statement w.r.t.
(3) Fusion of male and female gametes gametes in humans
ensure genetic material from two parents (1) All male gametes contain Y-
(4) Greater amount of DNA is involved in chromosome
sexual reproduction (2) All female gametes contain X-
chromosome
35. Choose the odd one w.r.t. clone (3) Humans produce heterogametes
(1) They are morphologically similar (4) Both male and female gametes have
individuals 22 autosomes
(2) Clones are genetically identical
individuals 40. Select the correct statement
(3) They are product of only asexual (1) It is possible to categorise
reproduction homogametes into male and female gametes
(4) They are connecting link between (2) Sexual reproduction always involves
sexual and asexual reproduction and can be the fusion of male and female gametes from two
produced by sexual reproduction different individuals
(3) In monoecious animals like earthworm,
36. Read the following statements and choose the male and female gametes are produced in the
correct answer same individual
Statement A: Amoeba produces pseudopodia (4) Meiosis never occurs in organisms that
to secrete a three layered cyst around itself. are haploid except during gametogenesis
 (2) Only by females of primates
41. Complete the analogy (3) Females of all animals
Meiocyte of cat: 38 chromosomes: gametes in (4) Females of placental mammals
dog: ________________
(1) 78 chromosomes 47. Oestrous cycle is not present in
(2) 19 Chromosomes (1) Rats (2) Tiger
(3) 39 chromosomes (3) Deer (4) Monkeys
(4) 38 Chromatids 4

42. Choose the odd one w.r.t. ploidy in human 48. During an experiment, after observing
(1) Germ cell slides of stages of reproduction in Amoeba and
yeast, students noted down following
(2) Secondary spermatocyte
observations.
(3) First polar body
(A) A chain of buds in Ameoba.
(4) Ootid
(B) Amoeba without pseudopodia covered
within a single layered hard covering around it.
43. The most vital event of sexual reproduction is (C) Unequal small buds are seen in yeast.
(1) Gametogenesis
Which of the following options given above are
(2) Gametes transfer correctly observed?
(3) Fertilization (1) (A) and (B) only
(4) Embryogenesis
(2) (A) and (C) only
(3) (B) and (C) only
44. Which of the following events of sexual
(4) (C) only
reproduction are exclusive to all metazoans?
(a) Gametogenesis
(b) Fertilization 49. Select the option which exhibits only incorrect
(c) Cell division statements w.r.t sexual and asexual
reproduction.
(d) Embryogenesis
(A) Sexual reproduction is an elaborate
(e) Cell differentiation to form specialized
and fast process.
tissue
(1) a and b only (B) Asexual reproduction is the process of
production of offsprings by two parents of
(2) a, b and c only opposite sex with or without involvement of
(3) a, b, c and d gamete formation.
(4) a, b, c, d and e (C) Reproduction enables the continuity of
an organism, generation after generation.
45. Organisms exhibiting external fertilisation (D) An animal with relatively simple
enhance the chances of syngamy by organisation commonly shows asexual
reproduction.
(1) Parthenogenesis
(2) Embryogenesis which occurs in (1) (A) and (B) only
external medium (2) (B) and (C) only
(3) Releasing large number of gametes (3) (A), (B) and (C) only
(4) Showing great synchrony with the (4) (B) only
same sex

46. Cyclical changes in the activities of ovaries and
accessory ducts as well as hormones during
the reproductive phase is exhibited by
(1) All animals
50. Chromosome number in meiocyte of animal ‘A’
is found to be in 3 : 1 ratio with gamete of animal
‘B’.
Select the correct answer from the options
given below w.r.t ‘A’ and ‘B’.
 A B
(1) Human beings Fruit fly 55. The most vital event of sexual reproduction is
perhaps the fusion of gametes which is not
(2) Housefly Fruit fly seen in the given animals except
(3) Dog Housefly (1) Rotifers (2) Turkey
(4) Cat Rat Rat (3) Honeybees (4) Frog

51. Read the statements A and B carefully and 56. Read the statements A and B carefully and
select the correct option. select the correct option.
Statement-A: In a tigress, cyclical changes Statement-A: Cartilaginous and bony fishes
during reproduction are called oestrus cycle. exhibit external fertilisation.
Statement-B: In non-primate mammals, Statement-B: Organisms exhibiting external
menstrual cycle occurs. fertilisation release a large number of gametes
into the surrounding medium to increase the
(1) Both statements A and B are correct chances of syngamy.
(2) Both statements A and B are incorrect (1) Both statements A and B are correct
(3) Only statement A is correct (2) Both statements A and B are incorrect
(4) Only statement B is correct (3) Only statement A is correct
(4) Only statement B is correct
52. Given below is the slide of a stage of binary
fission in Amoeba observed by a student under
the microscope. 57. Which of the following options is not correct
w.r.t embryogenesis?
Identify the stage and select the correct option.
(1) Process of development of embryo
(2) Zygote undergoes cell division and cell
differentiation
(3) Cell differentiation increases the
number of cells
(1) Encystation (4) Zygote undergoes mitosis during
embryogenesis
(2) Intermediate stage where only nucleus
is divided
(3) Intermediate stage where both 58. Select the incorrect match from the following.
cytoplasm and nucleus divided
(4) Sporulation
Animal Average life span
(1) Crow 15 years
53. If the number of chromosomes in the gamete of
an animal is 40, then find out the number of (2) Butterfly 1 to 2 weeks
chromosomes in the germ cell of its foetus with (3) Crocodile 160 years
sex chromosomes of XY type.
(4) Parrot 140 years
(1) 80 (2) 20
(3) 10 (4) 40
59. Select an option which exhibits only correct
statement(s) w.r.t life span of organisms.
54. Hydra reproduces asexually by the process of (A) No individual is immortal except single
budding, while gemmules are reproductive celled organisms.
structures of
(B) The period from birth to natural or accidental
(1) Yeast (2) Planaria death of an organism represents its life span.
(3) Spongilla (4) Liver fluke (C) Life span of crocodile is 4 times that of crow.
 Options are
(1) (A) and (B) only (1) Amoeba
(2) (A) and (C) only (2) Hydra
(3) (A), (B) and (C) (3) Rotifers
(4) (C) only (4) Turkey

60. All the organisms have to reach a certain age of 64. If A, B and C are approximate life spans
growth and maturity in their life to reach the of dog, fruit fly and horse respectively, then
reproductive phase of their life. select the correct option.
______ are responsible for transitions between
three phases of life. Select the correct option to
fill the blank. (1) A>B>C
(1) Enzymes (2) Catalysts (2) B>A>C
(3) Neurons (4) Hormones (3) C>A>B
(4) A>C>B

61. Bufo and Rana produce male gametes that are

thousand times the number of female gametes 65. Assertion (A): In amphibians, syngamy occurs
as in an external medium.
(A) Female gametes need large number of Reason (R): Gamete formation occurs outside
male hormones for fertilisation the body of female in aquatic organisms.
(B) To compensate the loss of male gametes (1) Both A and R are correct and R is
during transport in external medium towards the correct explanation of A
female gamete
(2) Both A and R are correct but R is not
(C) Female gamete kills many of the male correct explanation A
gametes.
(3) A is true R is false
(D) To increase the chances of syngamy
(4) A is false R is true
Choose the correct answer.
(1) (A) and (B) (2) (B) and (C)
66. Which of the following is not a differentiating
(3) (C) and (D) (4) (B) and (D)
feature of heterogametes?
(1) Motility
62. Read the statements given below carefully. (2) Size
(A) Asexual reproduction enables creation of (3) Chromosome number
new variants.
(4) Amount of cytoplasm
(B) Species cannot survive for long in the
absence of reproduction.
(C) Life spans of organisms are correlated with 67. In a mature earthworm, segments are
their sizes. covered by a prominent dark band of glandular
tissue called .
Which of the given options constitute the
correct statement(s) only? Select the correct option to fill in the blank
(1) (A) and (B) A B
(2) (A) and (C)
(1) 2–4 Tegmina
(3) (B) and (C)
(4) (B) only (2) 14 – 16 Clitellum

(3) 5–9 Tergites

63. Select the organism in which cell division itself (4) 23 – 25 Clitellum
is a mode of reproduction.
 76. The process refers to development of
68. The continuity of life is maintained by the e embryo is known as
process of (1) Gametogenesis (2) Embryogenesis (3)
(1) Respiration Parthenogenesis (4) Oogenesis
(2) Reproduction
(3) Photosynthesis 77. Which one has the more chromosome
(4) Adaptation number in meiocyte as compared to others ?
(1) Cat
(2) Dog
69. The offspring produced through which of the
following process are not exactly similar to their (3) Rat
parents? (4) Fruitfly
(1) Asexual reproduction
(2) Sexual reproduction 78. Which of the following event is post
(3) Parthenogenesis fertilisation event?
(4) Ameiotic thelytoky (1) Gametogenesis
(2) Gamete transfer
70. Reproduction is essential for (3) Fertilisation
(1) Producing young ones (4) Embryogenesis
(2) Adaptations
(3) Variations 79. Match the column-A with column-B
Column-A Column-B
(4) Continuity of a species
(i) Budding (a) Cockroach
(ii) Binary fission (b) Hydra
71. Estrous cycle is found in
(iii) Gemmule (c)Amoeba
(1) Gibbon (2) Gorilla (3) Cow (4) Monkey
(iv) Gamete formation (d) Sponge
(1) (i)-b, (ii)-c, (iii)-a, (iv)-d
72. Which of the following animal is bisexual ?
(1) Cockroach (2) Leech (3) Monkey (4) Honey (2) (i)-b, (ii)-c, (iii)-d, (iv)-a
bee (3) (i)-d, (ii)-a, (iii)-c, (iv)-b
(4) (i)-d, (ii)-b, (iii)-c, (iv)-a
73. External fertilisation occurs in
(1) Mammals (2) Birds (3) Reptiles (4) Bony 80. Which of the following statement
fishes incorrect?
(1) Asexual reproduction is a rapid mode of
74. Which of the following organism has longest reproduction.
life span? (2) Embryogenesis involves cell division and
(1) Elephant (2) Horse (3) Crocodile (4) cell differentiation.
Parrot (3) The life spans of organisms correlated
with their sizes.
75.Which of the following animals are seasonal (4) Animals are either unisexual or bisexual.
breeder?
(1) Monkey (2) Human (3) Bird (4) Apes
81. Arrange these animals in the increasing
order of their life span : Crow, Horse, Parrot,
Elephant
(1) Horse, Parrot, Crow, Elephant
(2) Crow, Parrot, Horse, Elephant
(3) Crow, Parrot, Elephant, Horse
(4) Crow, Horse, Elephant, Parrot

82.Read the following four statements (A-

D):

(A) In asexual reproduction, offspring

produced with or without involvement of
gametes
(B) In asexual reproduction, clones are
formed
(C) Asexual reproduction is very common in
single celled organisms
(D) Budding in Hydra is a mode of sexual
reproduction

How many of the above statements are

correct?
(1) Four
(2) Three
(3) Two
(4) One

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