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PROTOCHORDATA TO AMPHIBIA 8. The larval form of Urochordates is

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1. Tunicin is similar to 1) Tornaria 2) Tadpole
1) Cellulose 2) Chitin 3) Veliger 4) Pluteus
3) Cuticle 4) Scleroprotein 9. Chordates possess
2. Retrogressive metamorphosis is found 1) Dorsal nerve cord placed below
in gut
1) Hemichordata 2) Urochordata 2) Single hollow nerve cord placed
3) Cephalochordata 4) cyclostomata dorsal to gut
3) Double ventral nerve cord
3. Excretory organs of Amphioxus are
4) Single solid & ventral nerve cord
1) Nephridia
2) Pronephric kidney 10. The distingushing feature of all
Protonephridia) chordates is
3) Mesonephric kidney 1) A ventrally placed nerve cord
4) metanephridic kidney 2) A water vascular system
3) A chitinous exoskeleton
4. In which one of the following
4) Notochord
group, brain box is absent
1) Cyclostomata 2) Pisces 11. Salpa & Doliolum belong to : -
3) Amphibia 1) Hemichordata
4) Protochordata 2) Cephalochordata
3) Urochordata
5. Which one of the following is a
chordate but not a vertebrate 4) Protochordata
1) Scoliodon 2) Salamender 12. Chordates are distinguished from
3) Amphioxus 4) Snake non chordates by the presence of : -
1) Brain
6. Why the Hermania is considered as
degenerated chordate 2) Dorsal tubular hollow nerve cord
1) Due to absence of kidney 3) Ventral nerve cord
2) Due to absence of head 4) Dorsal solid nerve cord
3) Due to absence of brain box 13. Which of the following animal
4) Due to all above character belongs to Urochordata : -
1) Herdmania
7. Excretory organ of Herdmania is
2) Balanoglossus
1) Protonephridia
3) Amphioxus
2) Supra neural gland
4) Petromyzon
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14. Which of the following animal is
devoid of notochord and nerve cord
in its adult stag -
1) Herdmania Ascidian
2) Branchiostoma amphioxus
3) Assymetron 4) All of the
above
15. Which of the following character is
shared by all chordates at some
stage of life -
1) Notochord
2) Dorsdal tubular nerve cord
3) Pharyngeal gill slits
4) All of the above
16. Prochordates lack: -
1) Cranium & vertebral column
2) Jaws & vertebral column
3) Paired appendages
4) All of the above
17. Notochord is extended up to head
and is retained thoughout life in : -
1) Branchiostoma
2) Herdmania
3) Balanoglossus
4) Frog
18. The adult tunicates show : -
1) All the chordate characters
2) No chordate characters
3) Some of the chordate characters
4) Only dorsal nerve cord
19. Which of the following urochordate
animal is called indian "Sea squirt" :
1) Herdmania
2) Branchiostoma
3) Balanoglossus
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4) Saccoglossus
20. Basically all chordates are
metamerically segmented animals
this statement is : -
1) Completely false
2) Applicable to some chordates
only
3) Applicable to all chordates,
because at some stage of their
development they show some sort
of serial repetition of body parts
4) True for all chordates, as they
show this phenomenon throughout
life
21. Which of the following is not an
essential chordate character : -
1) Notochord
2) Vertebral column
3) Pharynegeal gill slits
4) Dorsal hollow nerve cord
22. The cephalochordates : -
1) Are exclusively marine in habitat
2) Retain the three primary chordate
characters throughout the life
3) Ciliary feeders
4) All of the above
23. The lateral line sensory system
helps as:-
1) Olfactory receptor
2) Chemoreceptor
3) Pressure receptor
4) Thermo receptor
24. The gill – slits of chordates occur in :
1) Buccal cavity of aquatic animals
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2) Pharynx of all land vertebrates 31. Cranium is absent in : -

3) Pharynx of all chordates 1) Protochordata 2) Vertebrata
embryos, and pharynx of aquatic 3) Craniata 4) All the above
adult chordates
4) Pharynx of all aquatic and land 32. Stomochord Buccal diverticulum) is
vertebrates in adults as well as in present in : -
their embryos
1) Amphioxus 2) Herdmania
25. Protochordates are : - 3) Balanoglossus 4) None
1) Mucous feeders
33. "Wheel organ" is found in : -
2) water current feeders
1) Herdmania 2) Amphioxus
3) Ciliary feeders
3) Balanoglossus 4) All the above
4) Predators 1

26. Biolumnicent chordate is : - 34. Ciliated organ of Muller is : -

1) Pyrosoma 2) Doliolum 1) Velum
3) Salpa 4) Botryllus 2) Wheel organ
3) Branchial sac
27. The other name of Notochord is : -
4) None of these
1) Chorda dorsalis
2) Vertebral column 35. Hatscheck" nephridium is present in
3) Endostyle 4) Myotome 1) Herdmania
2) Amphiouxus 3) Ciona
28. Ascidians are commonly knows as :
4) All of the above
1) Acoelomates 2) Tunicates
3) Denticulates 4) None 36. "Sea – squirt" is common name of : -
29. "Vanadium" is found in blood of : - 1) Balanoglossus 2) Herdmania
1) Amphioxus 2) Tunicates 3) Amphioxus 4) None
3) Myxine
37. In Amphioxus notochord is present
4) Tadpole larva of frog only in :-
30. In Amphioxus excretion take place 1) In embryo
by : - 2) In adult
1) Nephridia 3) Both
2) Protonephridium 4) None of these
3) Myotomes 38. Protochordates are not vertebrates
4) Kidney as : -
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2) Vertebral column absent 3) Amphioxus
3) Nerve cord absent 4) Petromyzon
4) None of the above
46. Notochord is restricted in tail of : -
39. Mode of feeding in 1) All chordates
Cephalochordates is : - 2) Hemichordates
1) Ciliary 2) Tentacular 3) Urochordates
3) Flagellar 4) None 4) Cephalochordates

40. "Lancelet" is : - 47. Which of the following animals are

the members of Cephlochordata -
1) Amphioxus
1) Rhabdopleura and Amphioxus
2) Balanoglossus
2) Branchiostoma & Assymetron
3) Herdmania
3) Petromyzon & Myxine
4) Salpa
4) Ciona and Apendicularia
41. One of the following is bisexual : - 48. Excretory organs of Urochordates : -
1) Herdmania 2) Amphioxus 1) Neural gand
3) Branchiostoma 4) Assymetron 2) Pyloric gland
3) Nephrocytes
42. Which of the following animals is
called "Typical chordate" : - 4) All of the above

1) Herdmania 2) Amphioxus 49. Wrinkled lips like an old lady occur

3) Balanoglossus 4) Salpa in : -
1) Lemprey 2) Myxine
43. Doliolum belongs to subphylum : - 3) Mucose snake fish
1) Hemichordata 4) All the above
2) Cephalochordata
50. The axial endoskeleton of
3) Urochordata Elasmobranchs is made up of : -
4) All of the above 1) Cartilage
2) Ossified cartilage
44. Prosoma is the member of class : -
3) Bone
1) Thaliacea 2) Larvacea
4) Hyaline cartilage
3) Ascidiacea 4) All the above 51. Most venomous fish : -
45. Which of the following animal is 1) Stone fish 2) Cat fish
sessile : - 3) Electric ray 4) Saw fish
1) Balanoglossus
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52. Which one of the fish is natural 4) None of the above

enemy of mosquitoes : -
58. "King of Herrings" is : -
1) Exocoetus 2) Chimaera
1) Scoliodon 2) Chimaera
3) Gambusia 4) Fistularia
3) Torpedo
53. The intestine of Dog fish is 4) Neoceratodus
characterised by the presence of : -
59. Which one of the following fish is
1) Pyloric valve considered as a living fossil : -
2) Scroll valve 1) Latimaria 2) Gambusia
3) Cardiac valve 3) Pleuronectus 4) Exocetus
4) sprinctor of oddi
60. In fishes, the teeth are of : -
54. Some species of fishes are 1) Acrodont tope
viviparous an example of this is 2) pleurodont type
1) Labeo 3) Thecodont type
2) All fresh water teleosts 4) Hetrodont type
3) All marine teleosts 61. Which of the following is not a lung
4) Scoliodon fish : -
1) Protopterus 2)
55. The circulation of blood in fishes is Neoceratodus
called:
3) Lepidosiren
1) Venous circulation
4) Lepidosteus
2) Double circulation
62. Which one is the distinguishing
3) Arterial circulation
feature of all vertebrates : -
4) Arterial and venous circulation 1) A internal bony or cartilagenous
skeleton
56. The number of cranial nerves in
fishes are - 2) A hairy body covering
3) Presence of mammary glands
1) 12 pairs 2) 10 pairs
4) Open type of circulatory system
3) 8 pairs 4) 14 pairs
63. In vertebrates the notochord : -
57. In modern elasmobranchs the 1) Persists throughout life
fertilization is 2) Is partially replaced by vertebral
1) Always external column
2) Always internal 3) Is completely replaced by
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4) Is partially or wholly replaced by 1) Lepidosteus
vertebral column 2) Protopterus
64. Exoskeleton of Elasmobranchi is 3) Petromyzon
usually composed of 4) Ceratodus
1) Placoid scales
71. Petromyzon is included under : -
2) Cycloid scales
1) Cephalochordata
3) Ganoid scales
2) Agnatha
4) Ctenoid scales
3) Tetrapoda
65. Pelvic claspers organs are found in : 4) Pisces
1) Labeo 2) Scoliodon
72. The three living Lung fishes namely
3) Anabas 4) Salmon Protopterus, Lepidosiren and
Neoceratodus are respectively
66. Which of the following is flying fish distributed in which countries of the
1) Exocoetus 2) Echeneis world : -
3) Clarias 4) Anabas 1) Africa, South America and
Australia
67. Elasmobranchi is the group which
2) Africa, Australia and Japan
includes: -
3) India, Africa and south America
1) Bony fishes
4) South America, England & Africa
2) Cartilaginous fishes
3) Lung fishes
73. The chordates without jaws are
4) hag fishes placed in :
68. Single medain nostril is 1) Agnathostomes
characteristic of : -
2) Gnathostomes
1) Birds
3) Vertebrates
2) Cyclostomes
4) Euchordates
3) Bony fishes
74. Which of the following constitute
4) Protochordates copulatory organs of Sharks and
Rays : -
69. Ammocoete larva belongs to : -
1) Penis 2) Pseudopernis
1) Petromyzon 2) Myxine
3) Hemipenis 4) Claspers
3) Amphioxus 4)
Balanoglossus 75. Petromyzon & Myxine are not
regarded as true fihes because : -
70. An example of lung fish from Africa
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2) They have circular mouth 4) Suctorial mouth

3) In them operculum is absent
82. Scales in cyclostomata are : -
4) There is absence of paired fins &
jaws 1) Cycloid type 2) Cteniod type
3) Placoid 4) Absent
76. Hippocampus is called "Sea horse"
because 83. Nasal aperture in Petromyzon is : -
1) It has horse like body 1) Single 2) Paired
2) Its snout resembles horse snout 3) Many 4) Absent
3) Its tail resembles horse tail
84. Which of the following is the larva
4) It swims fast like fast running of a of Petryomyzon
horse
1) Ammocoete 2) Bipinnaria
77. Jaw less fishes are included in : - 3) Tadpole 4) Tornaria
1) Chondricthyes
85. "Myxine" usually attaches through :
2) Osteicthyes
1) Gills of host
3) Cyclostomata
2) Head of host
4) Lung fishes
3) Cloaca of host
78. Circular and suctorial mouth is 4) None of the above
present in:-
86. Sense organs found in fishes as
1) Labeo 2) Petromyzon
unique feature : -
3) Scoliodon 4) All the above
1) Olfactory sense organs
79. In cyclostomes which structures is 2) Semicircular canals
seen : - 3) Lateral line organs
1) Pineal eye 2) Jaws 4) Auditory sense organs
3) Pectoral fin 4) All the above 87. Scales of Elasmobranch are : -
80. Petromyzon is ectoparasite on : - 1) Ganoid 2) Cycloid
1) Rat & squirrel 2) Fishes 3) Ctenoid 4) Placoid
3) Cattles 4) All the above 88. A catadromous fish migrates from :
81. Petromyzon attaches to the host 1) Rivers to sea
body with the help of : - 2) Rivers to rivers
1) Suckers 3) Sea to rivers
2) Hookes 4) None of the above
3) Both
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89. Which one of the followings is a 96. Fishes able to breathe in air :-
"Anadromous" fish : - 1) Fresh water fishes
1) Hilsa 2) Trout 2) Marine fishes
3) Salmon 4) All the above 3) Elasmobranchi
90. Thermoreceptors of Scoliodon are : - 4) Dipnoi
1) Olfactory sac 97. Fish change its direction suddenly
2) Neuromast organs by : -
3) Lateral line system 1) Pectoral fin 2) Pelvic fin
4) Ampulla of lorenzini 3) Caudal fin 4) All the above

91. Which fish is known as living fossil : 98. Fishes have kidney of : -
1) Chimaera 2) Latimaria 1) Protonephric type
3) Pristis 4) Harpodon 2) Mesonephric type
3) Metanephric
92. Which of the following fishes have
homocercal tail 4) None of the above
1) Teleosts 2) Torpedo 99. Cartilaginous fishes are
3) Sharks 4) Rays characterised by the presence of : -
1) Terminal mouth
93. The tympanum ear drum) is absent
in : - 2) Ventral mouth
1) Rays 3) A homocercal tail
2) Cartilaginous fishes 4) A protocercal tail
3) Bony fishes
4) All the above 100. Golden age of fishes is :-
94. Teleost fishes are characterised by 1) Devonian period
the presence 2) Silurian period
1) Air bladder 2) Claspers 3) Mesozoic
3) Placoid scales 4) None 4) None of these
95. Gill slits on each side covered with 101. The fish that swims vertically : -
operculum is present in : -
1) Scoliodon
1) All elasmobranchs
2) Hippocampus
2) Some elasmobranchs
3) Exocoetus
3) All teleosts
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102. Which is balancing organ of fish : - 4) Chondrichthyes

1) Ampulla of larinzini 110. First vertebrates animals belongs to
2) Utriculus class:-
1) Ostracodermi 2) Cyclostomata
3) Air bladder
3) Placodermi 4) Osteichthyes
4) Internal ear
111. Air bladeer is present in :-
103. Skull of fish is : -
1) Dog fish 2) Flying fish
1) Monocondylar 2) Dicondylar
3) Hag fish 4) Electric fish
3) Acondylar 4) None
112. Largest subphylum of chordata : -
104. Scale less fish is : -
1) Protochordata 2) Vertebrata
1) Torpedo 2) Cat-fish
3) Gnathostomata 4) Tetrapoda
3) Both 4) Raja
113. In pisces scales are derived from : -
105. Trimethyl amine is excreted by : - 1) Epidermis 2) Dermis
1) Marine teleosts 3) Connective tissue
2) Molluscs 4) Peritonium
3) Amphibians 114. Amphibians have a heart which is
4) None of the above composed of
1) Two auricles and two ventricles
106. Australian lung fish is :-
2) One auricles and two ventricles
1) Scoliodon 2) Lepidosiren
3) Two auricles and one ventricles
3) Protopterus 4) Neoceratodus
4) One auricles and one ventricle
107. Ferilization in Scoliodon is : - 115. Axolotal larva of Ambystoma
normally fails to metamorphose, the
1) External 2) Internal
reason is : -
3) Both 4) None
1) Absence of phosphorus in water
108. Which of the following fish is
connecting link between 2) Lack of iodine in water or diet
cartilagenous and boney fishes 3) Lack of Ca and mg ions in water
1) Chimaera 2) Rhineodon 4) Low concentration of Na and K in
3) Latimaria 4) Whale water

109. "Armoured fishes : belongs to class :- 116. A living amphibian with minute
dermal scales is
1) Placodermi 2) Osteichtyes
1) Amphiuma
3) Elasmobranchi
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3) Ichthyophis 4) Single circulation
4) Siren
123. If an "Axolotal larva" is placed in
117. Temporary or permanent retention water containing sufficient Iodine
of larval stage is known as : - then :
1) Morphogenesis 1) Larva will die soon
2) Embryogenesis 2) Its skin pigmentation will change
3) Neoteny 3) It will start metamorphosis
4) Parthenogenesis 4) It remains as usual without any
change
118. Which one of the following animal
has dermal scales in its skin: - 124. Hyla is commonly called : -
1) Bufo 1) Mid wife toad 2) Tree frog
2) Ureotyphlus 3) Mud puppy
3) Frog 4) Tiger salamander
4) Salamandra
125. Sexual maturity of larva is called : -
119. The limbless amphibians are :- 1) Paedogeneis
1) Ichtyophis & Ureotyphlus 2) Parthenogenesis
2) Slamander & siren 3) Parthenography
3) Newt & Amphiuma 4) Parthenofission
4) Necturus & Ambystoma
126. Tailed amphibians are : -
120. Which of the following amphibian 1) Apoda 2) Anura
has tail throughout its life : -
3) Gymnophiona 4) Urodela
1) Ambystoma 2) Necturus
3) Salamandra 127. Frogs and toads are included in : -

4) All of the above 1) Apoda 2) Anura

3) Urodela
121. Which of the following animal is 4) Gymnophiona
called "Water-dog" : -
1) Axolotal larva 2) Necturus 128. Snakes like amphibains are included
in : -
3) Petromyzon 4) Dog fish
1) Gymnophiona 2) Anura
122. Amphibians have : - 3) Urodela 4) None
1) Incomplete double circulation
129. Heart of Amphibains are : -
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2) Two chambered 138. Which of the following amphibian

3) Four chambered 4) None has largest R.B.C. : -
1) Amphiuma 2) Amystoma
130. Amphibians are : -
3) Siren 4) Triton
1) Homeothermic
2) Poikilothermic 139. The amphibians are characterized by
:-
3) Both 4) Endotherms
1) Only aquatic habit
131. Skull of Amphibians are : - 2) Monocondylar skull
1) Dicondylar 3) Scaleless, smooth moist and
2) Monocondylar glandular skin
3) Acondylar 4) None 4) Claws present at the tip of digits

132. Eggs of Amphibians are : - 140. Group anamniota includes : -

1) Mesolecithal 2) Telolecithal 1) Protochordata & Reptelia
3) Both 4) None 2) Aves & cyclostomata
3) Pisces & amphibia
133. Kidney in amphibians is : -
4) Reptilia & mammalia
1) Pronephric 2) Mesonephric
3) Anephric 4) Metanephric
141. Teeth in Amphibia are : -
134. Skin in amphibians also serve the
function of 1) Homodont, Pleurodont &
diphyodont
1) Respiration
2) Thermoregulation 2) Thecodont, hetrodont &
diphyodont
3) Offensive
3) Homodont, pleurodont &
4) All the above polyphyodont
135. Amphibians are : - 4) Homodont, Thecodont
1) Ureotelic 2) Ammonotelic polyphyodont
3) Aminotelic 4) Uricotelic
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136. Poison glands are found in : - 142. All type of snakes belongs to which
1) Rana 2) Bufo order -
3) Hyla 4) Alytes 1) Reptilia 2) Squamata
3) Ophidia 4) Lacertilia
137. Girdles are absent in : -
143. Which class of chordate has
1) Ichthyophis 2) Siren maximum living animals -
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3) Aves 4) Mammalia 1) Geko 2) Draco
3) Sphenodon 4) Anguish
144. Which of the following lizard is
limb less and surpentilies - 150. Saurology is the study of -
1) Hemidactylus 1) Flight less bird 2) Lizards
2) Ophiosaurus 3) Snakes 4) Birds
3) Heloderma 151. Poison gland in poisonous Lizard is
4) Varanus 1) Parotid gland
2) Sub-maxillary gland
145. Substance which are found in the
poison of cobra and viper are - 3) Infra orbital gland
4) Sublingual gland
1) Hepakine & dicumarole
2) Cardiotoxine 152. Exoskeleton of dry scales is
3) Neurotoxins and Cardiotoxin characteristic of -
1) Cartilagenous fishes
4) Cardiotoxin and Haemorhagin
2) Bony fishes
146. Which of the following pair is 3) Reptiles
unmatched for the animals of 4) Amphibia
Reptilia class -
153. Left lung poorly developed in
1) Cleidoic eggs and temperature 1) Lizard 2) Snakes
constant
3) Crocodile 4) Man
2) Meroblastic cleavage and lack of
Metamorphosis 154. Diaphragm is not found in -
3) 12 pairs cranial nerves and skin 1) Rabbit 2) Man
rough 3) Bat 4) Frog
4) Skull monocondylic and skin 155. Scales are found in -
with scales 1) Fishes 2) Reptiles
147. In which of the following 3) Both of them 4) None
tympanum is absent - 156. The embryo is surrounded with
1) Birds 2) Frog amnion in-
3) Lizard 4) Snake 1) Toad 2) Snake
3) Fish 4) Cock roach
148. The biggest snake in poisonous
snakes is - 157. Group amniota includes -
1) King kobra 2) Ptyas 1) Birds and mammals
3) Python 4) Pit viper 2) Birds and reptiles
3) Mammals and reptiles
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158. Order squamata consists of - 1) Archaeozoic 2) Mesozoic

1) Crocodile 3) Palaeozoic 4) Coenozoic
2) Lizards & Snakes 165. Which of the following snakes has
3) Bats vestiges of hind limbs -
4) Turtles and Pangolin 1) Hydrophis 2) Python
3) Eryx 4) Viper
159. Only poisonous Lizard of the world
is - 166. Delebrate breaking of tail called
1) Heloderma 2) Ophiosaurus ‘‘autotomy’’ occurs is some reptiles
3) Phrynosoma 4) Varanus for -
1) Defensive mechanism
160. The most advanced character of
crocodile & Gavialis is - 2) The process of asexual
reproduction
1) Shelled egg
2) Pleurodont dentition 3) Reproductive behaviour
3) Four chambered heart 4) Warning behaviour to its enemy
4) Powerful jaws and large body size 167. Sphenodon is a lizard like reptilian
living fossil) found in Newzealand,
161. Which of the following is a non
it is placed in a order called -
poisonous snake -
1) Rhynchocephalia
1) Cobra 2) Eryx
2) Rhizocephalia
3) Viper 4) Krait
3) Lacertilia
162. A snake can be distinguished from a 4) Saurischia
lizard by the absence of limbs -
1) And girdles 168. Indicate non-poisonous animals
from the following -
2) And tympanum
1) Naja 2) Varanus
3) Girdles and tympanum
3) Bungarus 4) Viper
4) Girdles, tympanum and movable
eye lids
169. The glass snake is a -
163. Which of the following reptilian is 1) Limb less amphibian
regarded as living fossil - 2) Limbless lizard
1) Crocodilus 2) Testudo 3) White snake
3) Sphenodon 4) Varanus 4) Limbless fish

164. Which of the following geological
ages is called the ‘‘golden age of
reptiles’’ -
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1) Laterally compressed tail
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2) Narrow belly scales 1) Wings 2) Fins
3) Smaller uniform belly scales 3) Tail 4) Patagia
4) Wide transverse scales as broad 178. a viviparous snakes is -
as belly
1) Viper
171. Four chambered heart is found in - 2) Rattle snake
1) Python 2) Krait 3) Hydrophis
3) Cobra 4) Crocodile 4) All of the above

172. Which of the following is a 179. Number of cranial nerves in a

poisonous lizard - reptiles is
1) 8-pairs
1) Monitar lizard
2) 10-pairs
2) Gila monster
3) 12-pairs
3) Flying lizard
4) 14-pairs
4) Horned toad
180. Poison glands of a poisonous snakes
173. Find out correct statement - are modified
1) all birds can fly 1) Buccal gland
2) all snakes are poisonous 2) Salivary gland
3) All amphibians lay eggs in water 3) Palatine gland
4) All mammals are viviparous 4) Lacrymal gland
174. Connecting link between reptiles 181. Which is the first amongst amniotes
and birds is as regards evolutionary series
1) Dodo 2) Archaeopteryx 1) Mammalia 2) Aves
3) Rhea 4) Sphenodon 3) Reptilia 4) Man
175. Which is the correct sets 182. Character of birds is
1) Heloderma - Gila monaster 1) Cledoic eggs and cleavage equal
2) Sphenodon -Tuatara holoblastic

3) Draco - Flying lizard 2) Megalecithal eggs and cleavage

unequal holoblastic
4) All the above
3) Cleidoic eggs and cleavage
176. Diaphragm is present in unequal holoblastic
1) Ostrich 2) Crocodile 4) Megalecithal eggs and cleavage
discoidal Meroblastic
3) Frog 4) None

177. Draco is able to glide in the air with 183. Character of birds is
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1) Unisexual and sexual imorphism 4) Blood circulation

absent
190. Ostrich is found in
2) Bisexual and sexual dimorphism
absent 1) Australia
3) Unisexual and sexual 2) Africa and Arabia
dimorphism present 3) North America
4) Bisexual and sexual dimorphism 4) South America
present
191. Which of the following groups
184. Thecodont teeth and four included Endothermic animals
chambered heat occur in
1) Crocodile, alligator, turtle
1) Crocodilia 2) Viper
2) Whale, pigeon, bat
3) Lacertilia 4) Chelonia
185. Parental care normally occurs in 3) Sea-horse, dog fish, cat fish

1) Reptiles and mammals 4) Toad, frog, salamander

2) Birds and mammals 192. Warm blood animals have

3) Only mammals 1) Body temperature similar to
4) all vertebrates climatic temperature
2) body temperature is always
186. Secretion of ''Pigeon's milk'' by constant
1) Crop glands 3) Blood is cold
2) Mammals glands 4) None of them
3) Salivary glands 4) Gizard
193. Which is not a mammal
187. 'Pecten' is a structure occurs in the
1) Dolpin 2) Anteater
eyes of
3) Echidna 4) Ostrich
1) Reptilia 2) Fish
3) Birds 4) Mammals 194. Which is the best definition of birds
1) Cold blooded animals
188. Furculum, synsacrum and
pygostyle bones are characteristic of 2) Flying animals
1) Snakes 2) Lizard 3) Feathered bipedal vertebrates
3) Birds 4) Monotremes 4) Feathered quadruped vertebrates

189. Air sacs of birds are helpful in

195. Which are modified into wings in
1) To lessen body weight birds
2) To keep body warm 1) Pectoral girdle 2) Pelvic girdle
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196. Birds fly from place to place this 202. In birds sound is produced by
movement is termed as 1) Larynx 2) Syrinx
1) Cursorial 2) Scansorial 3) Vocal cords 4) Pharynx
3) Digitigrade 4) Volant
203. Which of the following characters
197. An animal having ventrally placed represents flight adaptation of birds
four chambered heart, nucleated 1) Bones are pneumatic
RBCs without teeth belongs to class
2) Sternum has keel for attachment
1) Mammalia 2) Aves of flight muscles
3) Reptilia 4) Amphibia 3) Fore limbs are modified into
wings
198. The character found only in birds is
4) All of the above
1) Toothless beak
2) Bipedal locomotion 204. Which of the following group of
animals have monocondylar skull -
3) Wings
1) Amphibia & mammals
4) Feathers
2) Reptilia & mammals
199. What is the zoological name of 3) Aves & mammals
Indian peacock, the national birds
4) Reptilia & aves
1) Passer domesticus
2) Pavo cristatus 205. Which of the following is an
example of flightless birds Ratittae
3) Columba livia
1) Struthio 2) Kiwi
4) Psittacula eupatria
3) Rhea 4) All the above
200. Birds have
206. Uropygial glands occur in
1) One right aortic arch
1) Reptiles 2) Birds
2) One left aortic arch
3) Amphibians 4) Mammals
3) One poorly development and
other fully developed 207. Besides feathers birds can have
4) Both are fully developed 1) Hair
201. The study of habit, habitat, 2) Subcutaneous fat layer
migration etc. of birds is known as 3) Enucleated RBC
1) Herpatology 4) Diaphargm
2) Ichthyology
3) Ornithology
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208. The flight less birds, Rhea, kiwi &
Emu respectively belong to which
countries
1) South America, Newzealand&
Australia
2) Africa, Australia & New Zealand
3) North America, Japan & Africa
4) Australia, S. Africa & Japan
209. Archaeopteryx shows the characters of
1) Reptiles and birds
2) Reptiles and mammals
3) Birds and mammals
4) Fishes and amphibian
210. Which of the following is a
characteristic feature of birds
1) Four chambered heart
2) Pneumatic bones
3) Hollow nerve cord
4) Large eyes
211. Which of the following characters is
not related to Aves -
1) Homiothermy and presence of oil 216. Find out Australian flightless birds
glands in skin
2) Female genital organs of both
sides functional
3) Female genital organs of one
sides functional
4) Exoskeleton of feathers
212. Which part of the brain is likely to
be best developed in a bird for its
aerial mode of life
1) Cerebrum 2) Cerebellum
3) Medulla oblongata
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4) Corpora quadragemina
213. Large and well developed sternum
with keel in a bird suggests
1) Inability to fly
2) Fast running adaptation
3) Strong flying ability
4) Fast swimming adaptation
214. Birds differ from reptiles in which
one of the following character
1) Skin has scales
2) They lay eggs
3) There are vertebrates
4) There is regulation of body
temperature
215. Which of the following
characteristic is applicable for birds
1) Absence of urinary bladder
2) Presence of dicondylous skull
3) Ribs without uncinate processes
4) All of the above
1) Rhea 2) Ostrich
3) Kiwi 4) Emu
217. Feathers of birds are modified
1) Epidermal scales 2) Bony scales
3) Plates 4) Scutes
218. ''Birds are glorified reptiles''
statement given by
1) Hyman 2) Huxley
3) Henle 4) Salim Ali
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219. Skull of birds is 3) Boston 4) None
1) Monocondylar 2) Dicondylar
227. Flight muscles of birds are attached to
3) Acondylar 4) None 1) Keel of sternum 2) Calvicle
3) Coracoid 4) Scapula
220. Birds which is capable of flying
backward
228. Wish bone in bird is
1) Crane 2) Penguin 1) Furcula 2) Pygostyle
3) Humming bird 4) Albatross 3) Radius 4) Femur
221. Ghana Sanctuary is found in 229. Feathers are useful in
1) Bihar 2) Rajasthan 1) Protection 2) Flight
3) Madhya pradesh 3) Homeothermicity 4) All
4) Karnataka
230. Pygostyle is bone formed by fusion of
1) Caudal vertebrae
222. Fastest flying bird is
2) Thoracic vertebrae
1) Crane 2) Swift
3) Cervical vertebrae
3) Sparrow 4) None
4) All the above
223. Penguins are found in 231. Modern bird with teeth
1) Arctic region 1) Passer domesticus 2) Sparrow
2) Ethiopian region 3) Pavo 4) None
3) Australian region
232. Wings are modified as flipper in
4) Antarctic region
1) Ostrich 2) Penguin
224. External pinna in birds 3) Pavo 4) Cornus
1) Reduced 2) Not distinct
233. Famous ornithologist of India is
3) Well developed 4) Absent
1) Dr. Salim Ali 2) Gulam Ali
225. Uric acid is excretory waste in one 3) Mohan Ali 4) None
of the following
1) Lizzard 2) 234. Modern birds are Included in
Birds 1) Carinatae
3) Both 4) None 2) Ratitae
226. Fossil of Archaeopteryx lithographica 3) Both
was found in 4) Archacornithes
1) Australia
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235. Syrinx, furcula & pygostyle are 1) Snakes 2) Lizard

absent in 3) Both 4) None
1) Flightless bird 2) Flying birds 243. Which of the following birds are
3) Both 4) None predatory
1) Kite 2) Falcon
236. Sternum in Birds is
3) Vulture
1) Poorly developed
4) 1 & 2 only
2) Well developed
3) Absent
244. Era of mammals -
4) None
1) Coenozoic 2) Merozoic
237. Study of birds is called 3) Palelozoic 4) Archalozoic
1) Avionics 2) Ornithology
3) Anthropology 4) Herpetology 245. Tusk in Elephas are modified
1) Lower incisor
238. Furculum is formed by
2) Lower canine
1) Clavicle 2) Inter clavicle
3) Upper canine
3) Both 4) None
4) Upper incisor
239. Furculum is commonly known as -
246. Which of the following animals
1) Merry thought bone have character of both reptiles and
2) Wish bone mammals
3) Both 1) Monotremes 2) Marsupials
4) None 3) Macropus 4) Manis

240. Urinary bladder in birds 247. Centrum of vertebrate in mammals

1) One 2) Two 1) Amphicoelus 2) Procoelus
3) Opisthocoelus 4) Acoelous
3) Well developed
248. Which animal recently extinct from
4) Absent
India
241. Synsacrum in birds is 1) Cygnus 2) Mammoth
1) Parts of limb muscles 3) Cheetah 4) Dinosaur
2) Parts of skull bone 249. Bats belongs to which order of
mammalia
3) Part of girdle
1) Mammalia 2) Metatheria
4) Fusion of vertebrae
3) Eutheria 4) Chiroptera
242. Salivary glands are modified into
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250. Which of the following is ''Man of 3) Snakes 4) Birds
forest''
1) Orangutan 2) Gibbon 257. Oviparous mammals are

3) Baboon 4) Gorilla 1) Kangaroo

251. Which characters are found only in 2) Duck bill platypus

mammals 3) Whale 4) Rabbit
1) Pinna, teeth
258. Which is viviparous
2) Hair, oviparous
1) Turtle
3) Mammary gland, teeth
2) Running birds
4) Hair, mammary gland
3) Rabbit & whale 4) Bony fish

252. In all mammals

259. Hairs are not found in adult whale
1) Pinna are found its body temperature is regulated by
2) Mother gives birth to young ones 1) Sweat glands 2) Blubbers
3) Seven cervical vertebral are found 3) Blood circulation 4) Water
4) Four canine teeth are found
260. Cloacal aperture is found in

253. Marsupials are found in 1) Prototheria 2) Polychaeta

1) Asia 2) Australia 3) Primates

3) America 4) Africa 4) Protozoa

261. External ear is found in
254. Bat can fly in night because
1) Reptiles 2) Mammals
1) It has strong sense of sight
3) Amphibians 4) Fishes
2) Strong sense of smell
3) It can hear high velocity sound
262. The purpose of warm bloodedness
waves
in mammals is
4) It can produce high velocity
1) Maximum evaporation from
sound waves and perceive them
body surface
2) Increase metabolic rate
255. Respiratory organs of whale are
3) Keep body temperature constant
1) Book lungs 2) Lungs
in spite
3) Gills 4) Skin of change in climatic temperature
4) Continuous production of energy
256. Prototheria have evolved from for physiology
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263. Whale is a mammal because
1) Lays eggs
2) Heart has 4-chambered
3) Aquatic habitat
4) Diaphragm is found between
thorax and abdominal cavity
264. Spiny ant eater is
1) Indian bird
2) Australian mammals
3) Australian bird
4) Australian reptiles
265. Which character establishes that
Elephant is inhabitant of warm
climate
1) Almost hairless skin
2) Small eyes
3) Large body
4) Thick legs
266. Monotremata group includes
1) Animals with cloacal aperture
2) Protozoan with one flagellum
3) Fishes with one gill
4) Insect with one spiracle
267. Animal without placenta
1) Bat 2) Platypus
3) Kangaroo 4) Whale
268. Which of the following is an egg
laying mammals
1) Kangaroo
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2) Spiny anteater
3) Bat
4) Hedge hog
269. Smallest man like ape is
1) Chimpanzee
2) Orangutan
3) Sloth
4) Gibbon
270. A bat can fly like a bird, yet it is not
treated as a bird because it
1) Has mammalian character
2) has no feathers like a bird
3) Hangs upside down on a branch
4) Cannot fly very high like a bird
271. Which of the following group of
vertebrates have dicondylus skull
1) Amphibia & mammals
2) Reptilia & Aves
3) Aves & mammals
4) Reptilia & mammals
272. Which aortic arch mammals have
1) Only right aortic arch
2) Only left aortic arch
3) Both right and left aortic arches
4) Left aortic arch and incompletely
developed right aortic arch
273. Marsupium or brood pouch occur in
animals of
1) Prototheria 2) Metatheria
3) Eutheria 4) Theria
274. Mammals usually have external
ears or pinnae, but one of the
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following mammals has no pinna,
280. A particular echolocation sensory
which is that
system is found in some mammals
1) Echidna 2) Erinaceus belonging to order
3) Pteropus 4) Funambulus 1) Chiroptera 2) Insectivora
275. The generic name of kangaroo is 3) Primates 4) Ungulata
1) Parameles 2) Motoryctes 281. Mammals with true placenta are
3) Macropus 4) Chiroptera called
1) Prototheria 2) Theria
276. Monotremata is a group of animals 3) Meta theria 4) Eutheria
that includes
1) Sponges with single body 282. Sea lion is a
opening 1) Amphibian 2) Mammal
2) Mammals with single cloacal 3) Reptilian 4) Fish
opening
283. Which of the following is the order
3) Insects with single functional
of Oryctolagus
spiracle
1) Rodentia 2) Lagomorpha
4) Reptiles with single urino genital
aperture 3) Eutheria 4) Theria

284. The zoological name of Indian cow

277. The primitive characters of Duck is
billed platypus suggest that it
1) Bos - indicus 2) Bos - gaurus
1) Is a degenerated mammals
3) Bibos – sandiacus
2) Shows the stage between aves
4) Bubalus – bubalis
and mammals
285. The scientific name of Rabbit is
3) Shows the stage between reptiles
and birds 1) Oryctolagus cuniculus
4) Shows the stage between reptiles 2) Funambulus
and mammals 3) Lepus rufic audatus
278. Ornithorhynchus and Tachyglossus 4) Orcinus
monotreme mammals are found in
1) India 2) Japan 286. Renal portal system is absent in
3) Australia 1) Oryctolagus & Lepus
4) All of these countries 2) Pavo & Columba

279. Eggs are covered by leathery shell 3) Pteropus & Rattus

in 4) All of the above
1) Birds 2) Amphibians
287. Carnassial teeth are found in
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1) Herbivorous mammals to 1) Largest terrestrial animals

masticate the food 2) Largest aquatic animals
2) Dog & cat for tearing the flesh 3) Egg laying animals
3) Dog & cat for crushing bones 4) All of the above
4) Poisonous snakes to inject venom
294. Select the correct statement
288. Which group of mammals is devoid 1) Giraffe and rat have the same
of hair number of cervical vertebrate
1) Cetacea 2) Rodentia 2) Placenta and aminion both
protect the embryo from mechanical
3) Hydracoidea 4) Carnivora shocks
3) Oxygenated blood is carried to all
289. The odd toed horse and ass are put body parts by veins
in which order 4) Trypsin efficiently act in acidic
1) Perissodacyla medium
2) Artiodacyla
295. Name of the nervous band
3) Ruminata
connecting cerebral hemisphere in
4) Dermatoptera rabbit is
1) Corpus callosum
290. Which of the following has poison
glands 2) Corpus striatum
1) Male platypus 2) Female lizard 3) Corpus albicans
3) Male rabbit 4) Male rat 4) Corpus spongiosum

291. Which of the following animal has 296. Lower jaw of mammals is made up of
become extinct in India 1) Permaxilla 2) Maxilla
1) Lion 2) Acinonyx 3) Pterygoid 4) Dentary
3) Panthera tigris 4) None
297. Mammary glands are functional in
292. Find out false statement for male and female both
prototherians 1) Prototheria 2) Metatheria
1) Corpus callosum is absent 3) Eutheria 4) All the above
2) Testes are found in scrotal sacs
298. Kidney of mammals is
3) Mammary glands are without
nipples 1) Pronephric 2) Meso nephric

4) Egg laying and burrowing 3) Meta nephric 4) None

animals
299. In female one of the following is
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1) Clitoris 2) Labia minora 308. Which of the following is
3) Vulva 4) None mismatched
1) Manis - Spiny ant eater
300. Character found only in mammals 2) Ornithorhynchus - Duck billed
1) Homeothermy 2) Viviparity platypus
3) Dicondylic skull 3) Pteropus - Scaly ant eater
4) Diaphragm 4) Pangolin - Scaly ant eater

301. Horns nails and hoofs are made of

309. Which of the following order of
1) Cuticle 2) Chitin mammalian has intra abdominal
3) Tunicin 4) Keratin testes
1) Chiroptera
302. Intra-abdominal testes are found in
2) Proboscidea
1) Bat 2) Elephant
3) Cetacea
3) Whale 4) All the above
4) All of the above
303. In mammals connection between 310. How many chambers present in
foetus & uterine wall form stomach of ruminating mammals
1) Placenta 1) Four 2) Five
2) Inguinal canal
3) Three 4) Two
3) Ureter
4) Eustachian canal

304. Fastest mammals is EXERCISE – I : KEY

1) Deer 2) Cheetah 1.1 2.2 3.3 4.4 5.3
3) Horse 4) None 6.4 7.2 8.2 9.2 10.4

305. Immature birth take place in 11.3 12.2 13.1 14.1 15.4

1) Kangaroo 2) Dog 16.4 17.1 18.3 19.1 20.3

3) Tiger 4) Rabbit 21.2 22.4 23.3 24.3 25.3

26.1 27.1 28.2 29.2 30.2

306. Eggs of prototherians are 31.1 32.3 33.2 34.2 35.2
1) Alecithal 2) Microlecithal 36.2 37.3 38.2 39.1 40.1
3) Oligolecithal 4) Megalecithal 41.1 42.2 43.2 44.1 45.2

307. All mammals have hairs except 46.3 47.2 48.4 49.2 50.1

1) Cetacea 2) Chiroptera 51.1 52.3 53.2 54.4 55.1

3) Primates 4) Rodentia 56.2 57.2 58.2 59.1 60.1

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61.4 62.1 63.3 64.1 65.2 221.2 222.2 223.4 224.4 225.3

66.1 67.2 68.2 69.1 70.2 226.2 227.1 228.1 229.4 230.1

71.2 72.1 73.1 74.4 75.4 231.4 232.2 233.1 234.1 235.1

76.2 77.3 78.2 79.1 80.2 236.2 237.2 238.3 239.3 240.4

81.4 82.4 83.1 84.1 85.1 241.4 242.3 243.4 244.1 245.4

86.3 87.4 88.1 89.4 90.4 246.1 247.4 248.3 249.4 250.1

91.2 92.1 93.4 94.1 95.3 251.1 252.3 253.2 254.4 255.2

96.4 97.3 98.2 99.2 100.1 256.2 257.2 258.3 259.2 260.1

101.2 102.3 103.1 104.2 105.1 261.2 262.3 263.4 264.2 265.1

106.4 107.2 108.1 109.1 110.2 266.1 267.2 268.2 269.4 270.1

111.2 112.2 113.2 114.3 115.2 271.1 272.2 273.2 274.1 275.3

116.3 117.3 118.2 119.1 120.4 276.2 277.4 278.3 279.3 280.1

121.2 122.1 123.3 124.2 125.1 281.4 282.2 283.2 284.1 285.1

126.4 127.2 128.1 129.1 130.2 286.4 287.2 288.1 289.1 290.1

131.1 132.3 133.2 134.1 135.1 291.2 292.2 293.4 294.1 295.1

136.2 137.1 138.1 139.3 140.3 296.4 297.1 298.3 299.1 300.4

141.3 142.3 143.1 144.2 145.3 301.4 302.4 303.1 304.2 305.1

146.1 147.4 148.1 149.3 150.2 306.4 307.1 308.3 309.4 310.1

151.4 152.3 153.2 154.4 155.3

156.2 157.4 158.2 159.1 160.3 EXERCISE – IIA

161.2 162.4 163.3 164.2 165.2 1. I. Chordata is the largest
166.1 167.1 168.2 169.2 170.1 deuterostomeate phylum.
171.4 172.2 173.3 174.2 175.4 II. Notochord is persistent
throughout life in Amphioxus.
176.2 177.4 178.1 179.3 180.2
III. Dorsal tubular nerve cord lies
181.3 182.4 183.3 184.1 185.2
above the notocord, and outside the
186.1 187.3 188.3 189.1 190.2 coelom
191.2 192.2 193.4 194.3 195.4 1) I & II only 2) I & III only
196.4 197.2 198.4 199.2 200.1 3) II & III only 4) I, II & III
201.3 202.2 203.4 204.4 205.4
2. I. All vertebrates are chordates but
206.2 207.2 208.1 209.1 210.2 all chordates are not vertebrates. II.
211.2 212.2 213.3 214.4 215.1 In Protochordates the type of
coelom is enterocoelom, if present
216.4 217.1 218.2 219.1 220.3

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III. Position of myogenic heart in 3) only ii & iii are correct
chordates is ventral to gut. 4) only i & iii are correct
1) I & II only 2) I & III only
3) II & III only 4) I, II & III 6. The following are the statements
about the reproductive system of
3. I. Number of gill slits present in frog
chondrichthyes is four to seven i) Mesovarium attaches the ovaries
pairs to the kidneys and dorsal body wall
II. Torpedo is an electri ray ii) Ovisacs are the enlarged
III. Electric organs in Torpedo are posterior ends of the oviducts
modified dorsal muscles. iii) Mass of sperms released by male
1) I & II only 2) I & III only frog is called milt
3) II & III only 4) I, II & III iv) Bidder’s canal in the kidney of
male frog is connected to the ureter
4. Choose the correct statements from Which of the above statements are
the following correct
I. Caudal fin in bony fishes is mostly 1) all are correct
homocercal
2) (i) & (ii) correct
II. Fertilization is generally external
3) (ii) & (iii) are correct
in bony fishes
4) ii, iii & iv are correct
III. Most of the bony fishes are
oviparous
1) I & II only 2) II & III only 7. The following are the statements
about mam- mals
3) I & III only 4) I, II & III
I. Mammals dominated in
5. The following are the statements coenozoic era
about the brain of frog II. Mammals have single headed
i) Anterior commissure connects the ribs, mostly III. In mammals sweat
two corpora striata of cerebral glands are modified into milk
hemispheres glands
ii) Diocoel is the cavity of the The correct combination is
diencephalon 1) 1 & II are true
iii) Foramen of Monro connects the 2) II & III are true
IIIrd & IVth ventricles
3) I & III are true
Which of the above statements are
true ? 4) Only I is true

1) all are correct 8. Which of the following are the

2) only i & ii are correct common features of Aves and
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I) Extra embryonic membrane water for spawning

II) Double headed ribs III) Skull D) Camelus iv) Cycloid/ctenoid
IV) Metanephric kidney scales
1) I and II 2) II and III E) Trygon v) Placoid scales
3) I, II and IV 4) II and IV 1) a – iii, b – iv, c – i, d – ii, e – v
2) a – ii, b – iii, c – v, d – ii, e – iv
9. Match the column I, II and III and
3) a – iii, b – v, c – i, d – ii, e – iv
choose the correct combination from
the options given. 4) a – ii, b – iv, c – iii, d – i, e – v
Column I Column II Column
III
11. Match the column I, II and III and
choose the correct combination from
a. 1. P. the options given.
Ornithorynchu Platypus
Column I Column II Column III
s
a) 1. Fighting G. Fresh
2. Macropus Q. Exocoetus fish water
Kangaro b) Clarias 2. Flying H. Marine
o fish water
b. c) Ptero- 3. Rohu I. Auarium
c. 3. Pteropus R. Flying phyllum
fox d) Betta 4. Sea
horse
d. 4. S. Blue e) Hippo- 5. Magur
Balaenoptera whale campus
f) Labeo 6. Angel
1) a – 1 – P, b – 2 - Q, c – 3 – R, d – 4 – S fish
2) a – 2 – R, b – 3 - S, c – 4 – P, d – 1 – Q 1) a – 2 – H, b – 5 – G, c – 6 – I,
3) a – 1 – P, b – 2- R, c – 3 – Q, d – 4 – S d – 1 – I, e – 4 – H, f – 3 – G
4) a – 1 – P, b – 2- Q, c – 3 – S, d – 4 – R 2) a – 1 – I, b – 5 – H, c – 6 – I,
d – 2 – I, e – 4 – G, f – 3 – H
10. Match the columns I and II, and
choose the correct combination from 3) a – 2 – G, b – 3 – G, c – 1 – I,
the options given d – 6 – I, e – 5 – H, f – 4 – G
Column I Column II 4) a – 2 – I, b – 5 – I, c – 6 – G,
A) Lamprey i) Flame cells d – 1 – I, e – 4 – H, f – 3 – G
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12. Match the columns I and II, and 14. Match the column I, II and III and
choose the correct combination from choose the correct combination from
the options given. the options given.
Column I Column II Column I Column II Column III
A) Limbless i) Ichthyophis 1. Corvus E. Penguin
amphibian
B) Jawless ii) Icthyosaurs
vertebrate a.

C) Tailess iii) Frog b. 2. Columba F. Vulture

amphibian
D) Limbless iv) Lamprey
reptile
E) Fish like v) Snake
reptile 3. Psittacula G. Ostrich
1) a – 1, b – 2, c – 3, d – 5, e – 4 c.
2) a – 1, b – 4, c – 2, d – 5, e – 3 d. 4. Struthio H. Crow
3) a – 2, b – 4, c – 3, d – 1, e – 5
4) a – 1, b – 4, c – 3, d – 5, e – 2

13. Match the column I and II choose

5. Pavo I. Pigeon
the correct combination from the
options given 6. Apteno- J. Parrot
dytes
Column I Column II
7. Neophron K. Peacock
A) Macaca i) Limbless
vertebrate 1) a – 6 – G, b – 3 – K, c – 2 – F, d – 5 – J

B) Aptenodytes ii) Cloacal 2) a – 4 – G, b – 5 – K, c – 7 – F, d – 3 – J

chamber 3) a – 1 – G, b – 3 – K, c – 7 – F, d – 3 – J
C) Vipera iii) Pneumatic 4) a – 4 – E, b – 5 – K, c – 7 – F, d – 3 – J
bones
15. Match the columns I and II, and
D) Bufo iv) Ear pinna choose the correct combination from
the options given
1) a – 4, b – 3, c – 2, d – 1 Column I Column II
2) a – 3, b – 4, c – 1, d – 2 A) Cyclostomates p) Hemichordata
3) a – 4, b – 3, c – 1, d – 2 B) Aves q) Urochordata
4) a – 3, b – 4, c – 2, d – 1 C) Tunicates r) Agnatha
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E) Osteichthyes t) Tetrapoda 18. Match the columns I and II, and

choose the correct combination from
1) A – p, B – q, C – r, D – s, E – t
the options given.
2) A – q, B – r, C – s, D – p, E – t
Column I Column II
3) A – r, B – p, C – t, D – q, E – s
A) Tree lizard i) Hemidactyles
4) A – r, B – t, C – q, D – p, E – s
B) Turtle ii) Neophron
16. Match the column I and II, and C) Wall lizard iii) Calotes
choose the correct combination from
D) Limbless iv) Chelone
the options given.
amphibian
Column I Column II
E) Garden lizard v) Chameloen
a) Equus i) Moist skin
F) Vulture vi) Ichthyophis
without scales
1) b – v, a – iii, f – ii
b) Hyla ii) forelimbs absent
2) c – i , e – v, d- vi
c) Columba iii) Poisonous
nature 3) a – iv, d – vi, c – i
d) Bangarus iv) Mammary 4) e – iii, b – iv, a - v
glands present

EXERCISE IIB
1) a – 2, b – 1, c – 4, d – 3
2) a – 4, b – 3, c – 1, d – 2
3) a – 3, b – 2, c – 4, d – 1
4) a – 4, b – 1, c – 2, d – 3
17. Recognize the figure and find out
the correct matching
i. Nerve chord ii. Notochord
iii. Post anal tail iv. Gill slits
1) a – iii, b – ii, c – iv, d – i
1.
2) a – iii, b – ii, c – i, d – iv
3) a – iii, b – i, c – iv, d – ii
4) a – ii, b – i, c – iv, d – iii
Assertion & Reasoning Type
1) Both A and R are true and R
is the correct explanation of A
2) Both A and R are true and R
is not correct explanation of A
3) A is true but R is false
4) A and R are false
The following questions consists
Assertion A and reason R identity
the correct answer from the below
given choices
A : Urochordates &
Cephalochordates are included
under the group Acraniata
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2. A : Amphioxus is described as a
typical chordate
R: It retains all four fundamental
characters in its adult stage also.
3. A: Though snakes, brids and whales
are not four footed they are
described under tetrapoda.
R: They are the descendents of four
footed vertebrates.
4. A: In higher chordates the body
cavity is schizocoel.
R : It is formed by Splitting of
ectoderm.
5. A : Lampreys are anadromous
organisms
R : They migrate from marine water
into fresh water for spawning
6. A : Life cycle in petromyzon is
indirect
R : Ammocoete larvae is present in
the life cycle of petromyzon
7. A : It is necessary to know the life
cycle of ascidians to consider them
as chordates
R : Retrogressive metamorphosis is
exhibited by ascidians
8. A : Branchiostoma belongs to
subphylum cephalochordata
R : Notochord is present from
posterior end to anterior end of the
body beyond the nerve cord
9. A : All vertebrates are chordates but
all chordates are not vertebrates.
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R : Only in some chordates
notochord is modified in to
vertebral column
10. A: Hag-fishes are considered
scavengers
R: They feed on flesh of dead
organisms
11. A : Non-functional pharyngeal gill
pouches appear in the early
embryonic life of some chordates
R: Chordates have aquatic ancestry.
12. A : The heart of fishes is a branchial
heart.
R : It pumps blood only the gills
13. A :In fishes the heart is a single
circuite heart
R : The blood passes only once
through the heart to reach the body
parts
14. A : In fishes the heart is venous
heart
R : It always pumps deoxygenated
blood to gills.
15. A : Bony fishes are ammonotelic
vertebrates
R : They excrete ammonia. as their
nitrogenes waste
16. A : Sharks are included under
subclass Chondrichthyes.
R : They have lateral gills slits
covered by operculum
17. A : The bodies of rays and skates are
compressed dorsoventrally
R : They are bottom dwellers
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18. A : Circulation of first jawed
vertebrates is single circulation
R : The impure blood reaches the
heart once in course of each
circulation
19. A : Some cartilagenous fishes store
urea and TMO in their blood
R : Storing of above materials in the
blood keep the fluids isotonic to the
sea water and prevents exosmosis
20. A: Devonian period is considered as
golden age of fishes
R : Fishes flourished during
Devonian period
21. A: Latimeria chalumnae is
considering as a living fossil
R:Coelocanths remained without
much more changes since many
years
22. A: Skull of fishes is said to be as
monocondylic
R: At the back side of skull of them
only one occipital condyle is present
23. A: Vertebrae of fishes are
amphicoelous
R : Centrum of vertebrae is having
concavity at both the sides
24. A: Teeth of fishes is polyphyodont
R: Teeth are replaced many times
during the life time
25. A: Most of the fishes are
ammonotelic animals
R : Most of the fishes eliminate their
waste material in the form of
ammonia
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26. A: Caudalfin of most of
chondrichthyes fishes is
heterocercal
R: The caudalfin in them is
symmetrical both externally and
internally
27. A: Cartilagenous fishes maintain
osmotic con-centration of body
fluids.
R: Cartilagenous fishes store urea in
their blood.
28. A: Caudal fin is homocercal in
teleost
R : Caudal fin is symmetrical
externally and asymmetrical
internally
29. A : Fertilization in osteichthyes
fishes are external
R : Claspers are absent is male
fishes.
30. A : Frog exhibits sexual dimorphism
R : Male frog can be distinguished
from the female by the presence of
vocal sacs and a coupulatory pads
31. A : Bile juice helps in the
emulsification of fats
R : Bile juice is stored in the gall
bladder
32. A : In reptiles, the three aortic
arches directly originate from the
ventricle
R : In reptiles conus arteiosus is
absent
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33. A : In reptiles cleavage is 1. Which one of the following animal
meroblastic is not Deuterostome [RPMT 2000]
R : Eggs of reptiles are megalecithal 1) Ambystoma 2) Amphilina
3) Anguilla 4) Amphiuma
34. A : Birds are glorified reptiles
R : Birds are less evolved than 2. Which animal is called as '' Roofed
reptiles Terrapin '' [RPMT 2000]
35. A : Birds are included under 1) Tryonix
Sauropsida along with reptiles
2) Kachuga tectum
R : Birds show many similar
3) Chrysemys 4) Chelone
features with reptiles
3. Which animal is surinum toad
36. A : Mammals occupy the top of the
[RPMT 2000]
evolutionary ladder
1) Pipa Americana 2) Bufo
R : Brain of the mammals is
superiorly organised 3) Bombinator 4) alytes

37. A : Dentition in mammals is 4. National bird of India is [RPMT

heterodont 2000]
R : In mammals teeth are formed 1) Flamingo
twice 2) Pavo cristatus
EXERCISE II (A) – KEY 3) Columba levia 4) Psittacula
1.4 2.4 3.4 4.4 5.2
5. In Urochordata notochord is found
6.1 7.3 8.3 9.1 10.1
in [RPMT 2001]
11.1 12.1 13.1 14.2 15.4
16.4 17.3 18.4 1) Head of adult 2) Tail of adult
3) Tail of larva 4) Test of adult
EXERCISE II (B) - KEY
6. Microlecithal eggs are found in [RPMT
1.1 2.1 3.1 4.3 5.2 2000]
6.1 7.1 8.1 9.1 10.1
1) Reptilia + Aves
11.1 12.1 13.1 14.1 15.1
2) Amphibia + Aves + Reptilia
16.3 17.1 18.1 19.1 20.1
21.1 22.1 23.1 24.1 25.1 3) Reptilia + Aves + Chiroptera
26.3 27.1 28.1 29.1 30.1 4) Eutheria
31.2 32.1 33.1 34.3 35.1
36.1 37.2
7. Which of the following shows the
sexual dimorphism [RPMT 2000]
1) Hydra & Ascaris
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3) Ascaris & Pheretima 12. How many cranial nerves found in

4) Ascaris & Oryctolagus the Amniota [RPMT 2000]
1) 6 P 2) 8 P
8. Which is not aerial adaptation of 3) 12 P 4) 10 P
Birds [RPMT 2001]
13. Which have macrolecithal eggs
1) Single ovary
[RPMT 2000]
2) Pneumatic bone
1) Aves, Reptilia
3) Gizzard
2) Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia
4) keeled sternum
3) Aves, Reptilia, Chiroptera

9. How does the Reptilia differ from 4) Aves, Eutheria

other vertebrates [RPMT 2001] 14. Cleidoic egg is an adaptation for
1) Due to epidermal scale [RPMT 2001]
2) Due to cleidoic eggs 1) Aquatic life 2) Marine life
3) Due to tetrapod limb 3) Terrestrial life 4) Aerial life
4) None of them
15. Which type of scales are found on
10. In which of the following notochord skin of cartilaginous fishes
is absent [RPMT 2001] [RPMT 2001]

1) Adult Herdmania & 1) Cycloid 2) Ctenoid

Balanoglossus 3) Gonoid 4) Placoid
2) Adult Herdmania & adult
Branchiostoma 16. In which pair both characters are
found without exception in all
3) Larva of Herdmania & mammals [RPMT 2001]
Branchiostoma
1) Hair & vivipary
4) larva of Herdmania &
Balanoglossus 2) Vivipary & internal fertilization
3) Vivipary & mammary glands
11. Which of the following are 4) Mammary glands & internal
Anamniotes [RPMT 2001] fertilization
1) Chondrichthyes, Ostiechthyes,
Amphibia
17. Eggs of birds are [RPMT 2001]
2) Reptilia, Aves, Amphibia
1) Microlecithal 2)
3) Amphibia, Aves, Mammals Centrolecithal
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18. Which character is found only in 4) Homeotherms
mammales [RPMT 2002] 24. Odd-toed mammals is [RPMT 2004]
1) Neck 1) Equus
2) Diaphragm 2) Panthera
3) Optic lobes of brain 3) Chiroptera
4) Tail 4) Oryctologus
25. Icthyophis belongs to which class
19. Heterocercal tail is found in
[RPMT 2004]
[RPMT 2002]
1) Reptilia 2) Amphibia
1) Cartilaginous fishes
3) Aves 4) Pisces
2) Bony fishes
3) Whale 4) Amphibians 26. Which of the following is not a
characteristic of birds [RPMT 2004]

20. Which type of kidneys are found in 1) Lungs with air sacs
amphibian [RPMT 2002] 2) Pneumatic bone
1) Holonephric 2) Mesonephric 3) Exothermic
3) Pronephric 4) Meta nephric 4) Amniotic eggs

21. Which animal is Non-chordate- 27. Which of the following is a reptile

[RPMT 2002] [RPMT 2004]
1) Herdmania 1) Salamandra 2) Turtle
2) Balanoglossus 3) Newts 4) Toad
3) Branchiostoma
28. In snakes, which gland is modified
4) Botryllus into poison gland [RPMT 2005]

22. In which of the following reptiles 1) Lingual 2) Sublingual

four chambered heart is present 3) Maxillary 4) Parotid
[RPMT 2002] 29. What is common in Bat, Whale and
1) Lizard 2) Snake Rat [RPMT 2005]
3) Scorpion 4) Crocodile 1) Absence of neck
2) Muscular diaphragm between
23. Which character is not same in aves thorax and abdomen
and mammals [RPMT 2002]
3) Testes, outside abdominal cavity
1) Single systemic arch
4) External earpinna
2) Metanephric kidney
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30. A mammal in which milk is 36. In which of the following animal

squirted down to the throat of the post anal tail is found
body by muscular contraction of [AIPMT 2001]
mother is [RPMT 2005] 1) Earthworm
1) Bear 2) Camel 2) Lower invertebrate
3) Whale 4) Rhinoceros 3) Scorpion 4) Snake
31. Placoid scales are formed in [RPMT
37. Which of the following is closest
2005]
relative of man [AIPMT 2001]
1) Cartilaginous fishes
1) Chimpanzee 2) Gorilla
2) Bony fishes
3) Orangutan 4) Gibbon
3) Paleontical fishes
4) Lung fishes 38. In which era reptiles were
dominated [AIPMT 2002]
32. Hollow air filled bones pneumatic 1) Coenozoic era
bones) occur in [AIPMT 1998]
2) Mesozoic era
1) Mammals 2) Reptiles
3) Paleozoic era
3) Urodela 4) Aves
4) Archaeozoic era
33. What is true [AIPMT 2000] 39. In which of the following notochord
1) Platypus is oviparous is present in embryonic stage
2) Bats have feather [AIPMT 2002]
3) Elephant is ovo viviparous 1) All chordates
4) Diaphragm is absent in them 2) Some chordates
3) Vertebrates
34. Which of the following character is
4) Non chordates
not found in all the chordates
[AIPMT 2000] 40. In which animal nerve cell is
present but brain is absent
1) Diaphragm 2) Coelom
[AIPMT 2002]
3) Pharyngeal gill clifts
1) Sponge
4) Dorsal nerve cord
2) Earthworm
35. Cleavage in mammals [AIPMT 3) Cockroach
2000] 4) Hydra
1) Holoblastic equal
41. Which group of vertebrates
2) Holoblastic unequal
comprises the highest number of
3) Superficial 4) Discoidal endangered species [AIPMT 2003]
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3) Reptiles 4) Birds 1) Arctic tern 2) Salmon
3) Siberian crane 4) Salamander
42. Uricotelism is found in
[AIPMT 2004] 47. Which one of the following is not a
1) Fishes and fresh water living fossil [AIPMT 2006]
protozoans 1) Peripatus
2) Birds, reptiles and insects 2) King crab
3) Frogs and toads 3) Sphenodon
4) Mammals and birds 4) Archaeopteryx
48. In which one of the following sets of
43. One of the following is a very animals give birth to young ones
unique feature of the mammalian [AIPMT 2006]
body [AIPMT 2004]
1) Kangaroo, Hedgehog, Dolphin,
1) Presence of diaphragm Loris
2) Four chambered heart 2) Lion, Bat, Whale, Ostrich
3) Rib cage 3) Platypus, Penguin, Bat,
4) Homeothermy Hippopotamus
4) Shrew, Bat, Cat, Kiwi
44. Presence of gills in the tadpole of
frog indicates that [AIPMT 2004] 49. Which one of the following
1) Fishes evolved from frog like statements is incorrect
ancestors [AIPMT 2006]
2) Frogs will have gills in future 1) The principle of countercurrent
3) Frogs evolved from gilled flow facilitates efficient respiration
ancestors in gills of fishes
4) Fishes were amphibious in the 2) The residual air in lungs slightly
past decreases the efficiency of
respiration in mammals.
45. Which one of the following
characters is not typical of the class 3) The presence of non-respiratory
Mammalia [AIPMT 2005] air sacs, increases the efficiency of
1) Alveolar lungs respiration in birds
2) Ten pairs of cranial nerves 4) In insects, circulating body fluids
serves to distribute oxygen to
3) Seven cervical vertebrae
tissues.
4) Thecodont dentition
50. Which of the following pairs are
correctly matched [AIPMT 2007]
46. Annual migration does not occur in Animals Morphological
the case of [AIPMT 2006]

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features 55. Marsupials occur in [AIIMS 1999]

A) Crocodile 4-chambered 1) Africa 2) America
heart 3) Asia 4) Australia
B) Sea Urchin Parapodia
56. An egg laying mammal is
C) Obelia Metagenesis
[AIIMS 2001]
D) Lemur Thecodont
1) Kangaroo 2) Platypus
1) Only A and B
3) Koala 4) Whale
2) A, C and D
57. The early stage human embryo
3) B, C and D distinctly possesses [AIIMS 2003]
4) Only A and D 1) Gills 2) Gill slits
51. What is common between parrot, 3) External ear pinna
platypus and kangaroo [AIPMT
4) Eye brows
2007]
1) Ovoaparity 58. Which one of the following groups
2) Homoiothermy of structures/organs have similar
function : [AIIMS 2005]
3) Toothless jaws
1) Typholosle in earthworm,
4) Functional post-anal tail intestinal villi in rat and contractile
vacuole in Amoeba
52. Which one of the following in birds,
2) Nephridia in earthworm,
indicates their reptilian ancestry
Malpighian tubules in cockroach
[AIPMT 2008] and urinary tubules in rat
1) Scales on their hind limbs 3) Antennae of cockroach,
2) Four-chambered heart tympanum of frog and clitellum of
earthworm
3) Eosinophils
4) Incisors of rat, gizzard
4) Moncytes proventriculus of cockroach and
53. Axolotal larva is the name of larva tube feet of startish
of [AIIMS 1996]
59. Ornithorhynchus is a [BHU 1986]
1) Amphioxns 2) Silkworm
1) Duck 2) Dinosaur
3) Ambyostoma 4) Round worm
3) Monotreme mammal
4) Fossil bird
54. Gambusia is a [AIIMS 1997]
1) Parasitic fish 2) Pest of fish 60. Vetebral column is derived from
3) Fish predator of mosquitos larva [BHU 1987]
1) Dorsal nerve cord
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3) Outgrowth of cranium 1) Amphibia 2) Mollusca
4) Notochord 3) Annelida 4) Reptilia

61. Living fossil is [BHU 1989] 68. Rumimants belong to order

1) Dog fish [AIIMS 1997]
2) Flying fish 1) Proboscida 2) Artiodactyla
3) Dodo 3) Sirenia 4) Cetacea
4) Coelacanth/Latimeria 69. Carapace occurs in [AIIMS 1997]
1) Toad 2) Frog
62. Most favourable land adaptation in
reptiles is [BHU 1989] 3) Bird 4) Tortoise
1) Lungs
70. Bony fishes are [AIIMS 1997]
2) Scales
1) Ammonotelic 2) Ureotelic
3) Moist skin
3) Uricotelic 4) Both 2 and 3
4) Pentadacty limbs
71. Vetrebrates have [AFMC 1989]
63. Retention of larval characters even
after sexual maturity is called 1) Dorsal tubular nerve cord
[BHU 1993] 2) Ventrally situated heart
1) Pathenogensis 2) Ontogenesis 3) Body cavity with alimentary
3) Phyllogenesis 4) Neoteny canal
4) All the above
64. Which one is not exclusively marine
[BHU 1996]
72. Larva of Balanoglossus is
1) Seal 2) Warlus
[AFMC 1991]
3) Whale 4) Dolphin
1) Muller's larva 2) Tadpole
65. Mammals giving rise to immature 3) Tornaria
young ones and nursing them in a
pouch are [BHU 1996] 4) Kentrogen larva
1) Monotremes 2) Marsupials 73. In fishes the kidney is [AFMC 1993]
3) Primates 4) Carnivores 1) Pronephric 2) Metanephric
66. Lateral line system occurs in 3) Mesonephric 4) Nephridial
[AIIMS 1996]
1) Star fish 2) jelly fish 74. The glands present in the skin of
frog are [AFMC 1993]
3) Dog fish 4) All the above
1) Sweat and mammary glands
67. Ichthyophis belongs to [AIIMS
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3) Sweat and mucous glands 3) Sphenodon

4) Mucous and poisonous glands 4) All of these
81. Limbless lizard is [MP PMT 2000]
75. Which is the smallest taxonomic 1) Darco
group having cranium, vertebral
2) Ophiosaurus
column, ventral heart, pulmonary
respiration and two pairs of legs 3) Amblyrhynchus 4) Moloch
[AFMC 1998]
82. The zoological name of lion is
1) Chordata
[MP PMT 2000]
2) Gnathostomata
1) Panthera pardus
3) Vertebrata 4) Tetrapoda
2) Panthera-leopersica
76. Eggs of placental mammals are 3) Panthera leoperrca
[MP PMT 1999] 4) Felis leo
1) Homolecithal 2) Alecithal
83. Urinary bladder is absent in
3) Microlecithal 4) Mesolecithal
[MP PMT 2000]
77. Corpus callosum is found in the 1) Bird 2) Snakes
brain of [MP PMT 2000]
3) Crocodiles 4) All the above
1) elephant 2) pigeon
3) crocodile 4) frog 84. The greatest evolutionary change
that enabled the land vertebrates to
78. The evidence for the origin of birds be completely free from water, was
from reptiles is the presence in them the development of [MP PMT 2000]
of [MP PMT 2000] 1) four appendages 2) lungs
1) feathers 2) scales 3) cleidoic eggs
3) claws 4) hairs 4) four chambered heart

79. Scoliodon is called dogfish due to 85. Which living connecting link is an
one of its following characteristics evidence for organic evolution [MP
[MP PMT 2000] PMT 2000]

1) mouth 2) gait 1) Archaeopteryx between reptiles

3) carnivorous and birds

4) power of smell 2) Lungs fishes between pisces and

reptiles
80. Which is a living fossil [MP PMT 2000] 3) Coelacanth between pisces and
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4) Tachyglossus between reptiles 3) Pleurodont 4) Thecodont
and mammals
92. Ornithorhynchus is a [MP PMT 2002]
86. Sonar system is found only 1) Fossil bird
[MP PMT 2000] 2) Flightless bird
1) Bats 2) Whales 3) Connecting link between reptiles
3) Bats & Whales 4) Otter are birds
4) Mammal
87. Cleidoic eggs are characteristic of 93. Archeopetryx, a transitional fossil
[MP PMT 2002] between birds and reptiles was
discovered from the rocks of
1) Mammals
following period [MP PMT 2002]
2) Reptiles and Birds
1) Jurassic
3) Insects 4) Fishes
2) Archeozoic era
88. Microlecithal eggs with small
3) Cretaceous
amount of food reserve are found in
[MP PMT 2002] 4) Triassic
1) Frog 2) Insects
94. Stenohaline fishes are represented by
3) Man 4) Fish [MP PMT 2002]

1) Fresh water fishes only

89. In which of the following subclasses 2) Marine fishes only
of reptiles the skull has a solid roof
3) Those which can tolerate a
[MP PMT 2002]
narrow range of salinity in water
1) Anapsida only
2) Diapsida 4) Those which can tolerate a wide
3) Synapsida range of salinity in water
4) Parapsida
95. Swim bladder is present in
[UTTARANCHAL-2004]
90. Icthyophis is [MP PMT 2002]
1) a fish 1) Star fishes 2) Bony fishes

2) an Amphibian 3) Carp fishes 4) All of these

3) a reptile 96. The Indian salamander is
4) a mammal [UTTARANCHAL-2004]

1) Siren 2) Trilotrition
91. The type of dentition in Crocodile is 3) Ambystoma 4) Necturus
[MP PMT 2002]
1) Acrodont 2) Bunodont

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97. The character of birds, without 4) Rabbit

exception, is [UTTARANCHAL-2004]
103. Ophiosaurus belong to
1) Omnivorous
[Bihar-2001]
2) Flying wings
1) Amphibia 2) Pisces
3) Beak without teeth
3) Reptilia 4) Mammalia
4) Lay eggs with calcareous shell
104. Torpedo is commonly [Bihar-2006]
98. Which of the following is an
1) Sucherfish 2) Electric ray
exclusive character of class
Mammalia [UTTARANCHAL-2004] 3) Globefish 4) Sea horse
1) Homoiothermy 105. Formen of panizzae is found in the
heart of [Bihar-2006]
2) Internal fertilization
1) Rabbit 2) Pigeon
3) Presence of a 4-chambered heart
3) Crocodile 4) Frog
4) Presence of a muscular
diaphragm 106. Which of the following is
viviparous [UTTARANCHAL-2006]
99. Poisonous Sea-snake possess a
1) Running birds 2) Whales
[UTTARANCHAL-2005]

1) Compressed tail 2) Printed tail 3) Bats 4) Both 2 and 3

3) Depressed tail 4) Conicl tail 107. Which of the following snakes non-
poisnous [UP CPMT 2001]
100. Echidna is found in
1) Cobra 2) Krait
[UTTARANCHAL-2005]
3) Viper 4) Python
1) India 2) Africa
3) Malaya 4) Australia 108. Sea horse belongs to [UP CPMT 2003]
1) Mammals 2) Amphibia
101. Cause of death during snake bite
3) Aves 4) Pisces
[Bihar-2002]
1) Failure of nerves
109. Cranial nerves in frog are
2) destruction R B Cs
1) 12 pairs 2) 9 pairs + 1
3) permanent contraction of muscles
3) 10 pairs + 1 4) 10 pairs
4) Both 'a' and ' b'
110. Which of the following has
102. Oviparous mammals are [Bihar-2002] exoskeleton of scales and paired
1) Kangaroo copulatory organ or penis
2) Duck bill platypus [UP CPMT 2006]
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3) Urodela 4) Urochordata
117. Nematocysts are found in [MP PMT
111. All chordates at one or the other 2002]
stage have [MP PMT 2004] 1) Porifera 2) Coelenterata
1) Pharyngeal gill-slits 3) Nematodes 4) Annelida
2) Vertebral column
118. In which of the following subclasses
3) Two pairs of pentadactyte limbs of reptiles, the skull has a solid roof
4) A moveable jaw [MP PMT 2001]

112. Sea cows are aquatic mammals 1) Anapsida 2) Diapsida

include under [MP PMT 2001] 3) Synapsida 4) Parapsida
1) Lagomorpha 2) Pinnipedia
119. Ichthyophis is [MP PMT 2002]
3) Cetacea 4) Sirenia
1) A fish
113. Diapsid skull is found in the 2) An amphibian
following [MP PMT 2001] 3) A reptile
1) Crocodile, Turtle and Seymauria 4) A mammal
2) Sphenodon, Crocodile and Viper
3) Natrix, Draco and Turtle 120. The type of dentition in Crocodile is

4) Calotes, Cobra and Varanosaurus [MP PMT 2002]

1) Acrodont 2) Bunodont
114. A group of animals having 3) Pleurodont 4) Thecodont
marsupium [MP PMT 2001]
1) Monotremata 2) Eutheria 121. The eggs of eutherian mammals are
3) Metatheria 4) Pantotheria [MP PMT 2003]
1) Mesolecithal type
115. Which of the following belongs to
Phylum Arthropoda [MP PMT 2001] 2) Microlicithal type
1) Star fish 2) Gold fish 3) Telolecithal type
3) Silver fish 4) Cuttle fish 4) Megalecithal type

116. Which of the following does not 122. Taxomically which of the following
belong to Phylum Coelentrata? set is matched correctly? [MP
PMT 2001]
[MP PMT 2002]
1) Cattle fish, Jelly fish, Silver fish
1) Sea pen
2) Bat, Pigeon, Kite
2) Sea feather
3) Lobsters, spider, shrimps
3) Sea cucumber
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123. Sea horse is [CG PMT 2009] 2) Tiger –tigris, the species
1) A bird 2) A Mammal 3) Cuttlefish- Mollusca, a class
3) An Amphibian 4) A fish 4) Humans – Primata, the family
124. Which one of the following lays EXERCISE III - KEY
eggs yet the female secretes milk? 1.2 2.1 3.2 4.3 5.3
[CG PMT 2009] 6.4 7.4 8.3 9.1 10.2
1) Bat 2) Kangaroo 11.1 12.3 13.2 14.3 15.4
3) Platypus 4) Ostrich 16.4 17.3 18.2 19.1 20.2
21.2 22.4 23.3 24.1 25.1
125. Archaeopteryx is [CG PMT 2009]
26.3 27.2 28.4 29.2 30.3
1) A living fossil 2) A mammal
31.1 32.4 33.1 34.1 35.2
3) A connecting link between 36.4 37.1 38.2 39.1 40.4
Annelida and Arthropoda
41.1 42.2 43.1 44.3 45.2
4) A connecting ling between 46.4 47.4 48.1 49.4 50.2
reptiles and birds
51.1 52.1 53.3 54.3 55.4
126. The largest endangered bird in 56.2 57.2 58.2 59.3 60.4
India [CP PMT 2009] 61.4 62.1 63.4 64.4 65.2
1) Vulture 2) Flamingo 66.3 67.1 68.2 69.4 70.4
3) Great Indian Bustard 71.4 72.3 73.3 74.4 75.4
4) Great Indian Hornbill 76.3 77.1 78.3 79.4 80.4
81.2 82.2 83.4 84.3 85.1
127. Which of the following does not
86.3 87.2 88.3 89.1 90.2
make a nest of its own? [CG PMT
2009]
91.4 92.4 93.1 94.3 95.2
96.2 97.2 98.4 99.1 100.4
1) Crow 2) Parrot
101.4 102.2 103.3 104.2 105.3
3) Cuckoo 4)
106.4 107.4 108.4 109.4 110.1
Sparrow
111.1 112.3 113.2 114.3 115.3
128. The sea snakes have [CG PMT 116.3 117.2 118.1 119.2 120.4
2009] 121.2 122.3 123.4 124.3 125.4
1) Cylindrical tail 126.3 127.3 128.3 129.2
2) Dry hrony scale at tail end
EXERCISE – IV
3) Laterally compressed tail
4) Dorsoventrally flattened tail NCERT EXEMPLAR
1. In some animal groups, the body is
129. Which one of the following
found divided into compartments
animals is correctly matched with
with at least some organs/ organ
its particular named taxonomic
repeated. This characteristic feature
category ? [AIPMT 2011]
is named
1) Housefly – Musca, an order
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3) Metagenesis 1) Platypus 2) Flying fox Bat
4) Metamorphosis 3) Elephant 4) Whale

2. Which one of the following sets of 7. Which one of the following is not a
animals share a four chambered poisonous snake?
heart? 1) Cobra 2) Viper
1) Amphibian, Reptiles, Birds 3) Python 4) Krait
2) Crocodiles, Birds, Mammals
3) Crocodiles, Lizards, Turtles 8. Match the following:
4) Lizards, Mammals, Birds Animals locomotory Organ
a. Octopus i. Limbs
3. Which of the following pairs of
b. Crocodile ii. Comb
animals has non glandular skin
plates
1) Snake and Frog
c. Catla iii. Tentacles
2) Chameleon and Turtle
d. Ctenoplana iv. Fins
3) Frog and Pigeon
1) a – iii, b – i, c – iv, d – ii
4) Crocodile and Tiger
2) a – ii, b – i, c – iv, d – ii
4. Birds and mammals share one of the 3) a – iii, b – i, c – ii, d – iv
following characteristics as a 4) a – i, b – ii, c – iv, d – iii
common feature.
1) Pigmented skin 9. Match the following
2) Alimentary canal with some Column I Column II
modification a. Amphibia i. Air bladder
3) Viviparity b. Mammals ii. Cartilaginous
4) Warm blooded nature notochord
c. Chondrichthyes iii. Mammary
5. Which one of the following sets of
glands
animals belong to a single taxonomic
group? d. Ostichthyes iv. Pneumatic
bones
1) Cuttlefish, Jellyfish, Silverfish,
Dogfish, Starfish e. Cyclostomata v. Dual habitat
2) Bat, Pigeon, Butterfly f. Aves vi. Sucking and
circular mouth
3) Monkey, Chimpanzee, Man
without jaws.
4) Silkworm, Tapeworm, Earthworm

6. Which one of the following is 1) a – v, b – iii, c – ii, d – iv, e –vi , f – i

oviparous? 2) a – v, b – iii, c – ii, d – i, e – vi , f – iv

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3) a – iii, b – v, c – ii, d – i, e –vi , f – iv

4) a – v, b – ii, c – iii, d – i, e –vi , f – iv

10. Match the following and write

correct choice in space provided
Column I Column II
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
1) a – v, b – i, c – iii, d – iv, e – vi , f – ii
2) a – vi, b – i, c – iii, d – iv, e – ii , f – v
3) a – v, b – i, c – iii, d – iv, e – ii , f – vi
4) a – v, b – iii, c – i, d – iv, e – ii , f – vi

EXERCISE IV - KEY
1.2 2.2 3.2 4.4 5.3
6.1 7.3 8.1 9.2 10.3

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