MUST DO VSAQS IN ZOOLOGY IPE 2ND YEAR
QUESTIONS NOT TO BE MISSED OR MESSED
Very Short answer questions (2M)
UNIT I-A: - DIGESTION AND ABSORPTION
1. Give the dental formula of adult human
beings.
2. What is chyme.
3. Name different types of papillae present on
the tongue of man?
UNIT I-B :-BREATHING AND EXCHANGE OF GASES.
1. Define vital capacity. What is its significance.
2. What is meant by chloride shift?
3. What are conchae?
4. Name the muscle that help in normal
breathing movements.
UNIT II-A :- BODY FLUIDS AND CIRCULATION.
1. How many pace makers are present in the
human heart? What are they?
2. Why the arteries are more elastic than the
veins?
3. Sino-atrial node is called the pacemaker of our
heart.
4. Name the valves that guard the left and right
atrioventricular apertures in man.
UNIT II-B: - EXCRETORY PRODUCTS AND THEIR
ELIMNATION
1. What are renal pyramids and renal papillae?
2. What are columns of Bertini?
3. Define glomerular filtration.
4. Distinguish between the enzymes renin and
rennin.
5. Distinguish between cortical and
juxtamedullary nephrons.
6. Differentiate between the columns of Bertine
and Duct of Bellini.
UNIT III-A :- MUSCULO SKELETAL SYSTEM.
1. Distinguish between red muscle fibres and
white muscle fibres.
2. Write any two differences between aerobic
and anaerobic muscles.
3. Name the keystone bone of the cranium.
Where is it located.
4. Human Skull is described as dicondylic skull.
Give the reason.
5. Name the ear ossicles and their evolutionary
origin in human beings.
6. What is a sarcomere?
7. What is a triad system?
Unit III-B: - NEURAL CONTROL AND COORDINATION.
1. What is corpus callosum?
2. Why the sympathetic division is called
thoraco-lumbar division?
3. What do you know about Arbor vitae?
4. Name the meninges of the mammalian
nervous system from the outer most to the
inner most?
5. Why the sympathetic division is called
thoraco-lumbar division?
6. How do rods and cones of human eye differ
from each other chemically and functionally?
UNIT IV-A: -ENDOCRINE SYSTEM.
1. Distinguish between diabetes insipidus and
diabetes mellitus.
2. What is acromegaly? Name the hormone
responsible for this disorder.
3. Which hormone is called anti-diuretic
hormone? Write the name of the gland that
secretes it
4. Name the gland that increases in size during
childhood and decreases in size during
adulthood.
5. What important role does it play in case of
infection?
6. What are Islets of Langerhans?
7. Which hormone is commonly known as fight
and flight hormone?
8. What is erythropoietin? What is its function?
UNIT IV-B: -IMMUNE SYSTEM
1. "Colostrum is very much essential for the new
born infants". Justify.
2. Write the names of any four mononuclear
phagocytes.
3. Define the terms immunity and immune
system.
4. Differentiate between perforins and
granzymes.
5. Distinguish between 'Humoral immunity' and
Cell mediated immunity?
6. What are auto immune disorders? give ny two
examples.
UNIT V-A HUMAN REPRODUCTION
1. What are the functions of Sertoli cells of the
seminiferous tubules and Leydig cells in man?
2. Define "Spermination" and
"Spermiogenesis"?
3. What is capacitation of sperms ?
4. What are the four extra embryonic
membranes.
UNIT V- B: - REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
1. What are the measures one has to take to
prevent contracting STDs?
 2. What is 'amniocentesis'? Name any two
disorders that can be detected by
amniocentesis.
3. What in your view are the reasons for
population explosion, especially in India?

UNIT VI: - GENETICS

1. What are multiple alleles?
2. What is Turner's syndrome?
3. What is klinefelter's syndrome?
4. List out any two applications of DNA finger
printing technology.
5. What is haplodiploidy?
UNIT VII: - EVOLUTION.
1. What are panspermia?
2. Mention the names of any four connecting
links that you have studied.
3. Define Biogenetic law, giving an example.
4. Define atavism with an example.
5. What is meant by genetic load? Give an
example.
6. Define Founder Effect, give one example.

UNIT VIII :- APPLIED BILOGY.

1. Define the terms layer and broiler.
2. What is apiculture?
3. Distinguish between a drone and worker in
honey bee colony?
4. Explain the term hypophysation.
5. Mention any four fish by - products.
6. Write any four important advantages of
poultry farming?
7. Differentiate between Apiculture and
aquaculture.
8. Differentiate between Apiculture and
Pisciculture.
9. Which substance in a sample are detected by
direct and indirect ELISA respectively?
10. MRI scan is harmless. Justify.
11. Define the term Transgenic animal?
12. What does ADA stands for? Deficiency of ADA
causes which disease?
13. List out any two Indian carps and two exotic
carps.
14. What is popularly called 'Guardian Angle of
cell's Genome"?
15. Mention any two advantages of inbreeding.