CSS Zoology Questions & Answers - Set 1

1)   The study of nuclear cytology is known as:

a. Neurology
b. Mycology
c. Rhinology
d. Karyology
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Karyology

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


2)   The study of preservation of life or the study of organisms at low temperature is known as:

a. Kalology
b. Malacology
c. Cryobiology
d. Dermatology
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Cryobiology

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


3)   The study of animals with respect of their environment is termed as:

a. Ecology
b. Cytology
c. Physiology
d. Limnology
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Ecology

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


4)   The study of molluscan shells is called:

a. Neurology
b. Conchology
c. Craniology
d. Malacology
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Conchology

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


5)   The study of animal behaviour is known as:

a. Ecology
b. Sociology
c. Ethology
d. Anthropology
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Ethology

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


6)   The study of snakes is called:

a. Ichthyology
b. Serpentology
c. Herpatology
d. Entomology
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Serpentology

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


7)   The study of growing old is known as:

a. Genology
b. Generology
c. Gerontology
d. Gynaecology
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Gerontology

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


8)   The study of interaction of antigens and antibodies in the blood is known as:

a. Serology
b. Haematology
c. Angiology
d. Cryobiology
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Serology

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


9)   The study of nests of birds is known as:

a. Craniology
b. Nidology
c. Ichnology
d. Myremecology
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Nidology

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


10)   Science for the genetical improvement of human race is called:

a. Euthenics
b. Eugenics
c. Genetics
d. Genecology
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Eugenics

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


11)   The study of the liver is termed as:

a. Herpetology
b. Horology
c. Hepatology
d. Haematology
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Hepatology

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


12)   Name the science for the study of human beings:

a. Anthropopsy
b. Anthropology
c. Aphidology
d. Anthropopathy
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Anthropology

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


13)   The branch of zoology under which fossils are studied, is called:

a. Palaeozoology
b. Ecology
c. Zoogeography
d. Taxonomy
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Palaeozoology

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


14)   Study of plasmodium and Amoeba is termed:

a. Parasitology
b. Cytology
c. Protozoology
d. Parazoology
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Protozoology

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


15)   The study of cause of disease is known as:

a. Pathology
b. Etiology
c. Ethology
d. Zymology
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Etiology

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


16)   Ethnology is the study of:

a. Mankind behaviour
b. Past life of organisms
c. Conditions of animals
d. Joints
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Mankind behaviour

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


17)   Myology is the study of:

a. Muscles
b. Bones
c. Cartilage
d. Epithelium
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Muscles

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


18)   The study of immunological reaction occurring in the blood is known as:

a. Haematology
b. Biochemistry
c. Serology
d. Pathology
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Haematology

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


19)   The science of characters and distribution of race is known as:

a. Ethnology
b. Anthropology
c. Sociology
d. Taxonomy
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Ethnology

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


20)   The study of birds is known as:

a. Ornithology
b. Saurology
c. Aves
d. Malacology
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Ornithology

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


21)   The most recent branch of taxonomy is known as:

a. Cytotaxonomy
b. Karyotaxonomy
c. Morphotaxonomy
d. Taxidermy
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Karyotaxonomy

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


22)   Universe or cosmos began as a dense, red hot, gaseous cloud about:

a. 1-2 billion years ago
b. 7-10 billion years ago
c. 7-19 million years ago
d. 1-2 million years ago
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 7-10 billion years ago

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


23)   "Ylem" is term also use for:

a. Cosmos
b. Ocean
c. Sun
d. Stars
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Cosmos

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


24)   Solar System originated about 4.5-5 billion years ago according to the theory proposed by:

a. Darwin
b. Larmarck
c. Kant-Laplace
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Kant-Laplace

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


25)   Our earth came into existence about:

a. 4.6 billion years ago
b. 3 billion years ago
c. 5 million years ago
d. 2 billion years ago
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 4.6 billion years ago

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


26)   Life originated with the creation of universe and it reached the earth from Sun part of universe is the central idea of:

a. Theory of spontaneous/sudden creation
b. Cosmosic Theory
c. Theory of special creation
d. Theory of Chemical evolution
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Cosmosic Theory

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


27)   Origin of life is now due to:

a. Spontaneous generation
b. Will of God
c. Effect of Sunshine on mud
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Spontaneous generation

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


28)   Which of the following is likely to have been absent in free form at the time of origin of life:

a. Oxygen
b. Methane
c. Nitrogen
d. Ammonia
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Ammonia

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


29)   Originally the primitive atmosphere was reducing because:

a. Oxygen was most abundant
b. Hydrogen was absent
c. Hydrogen atoms were most abundant and active
d. Carbon Atom were most active
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Hydrogen atoms were most abundant and active

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


30)   Believers of theory of spontaneous generation assumed that:

a. Organisms arose not only from other similar organisms but also spontaneously
b. Organisms always arose spontaneously
c. Organisms arose only from air
d. Organisms arose only from other similar organism
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Organisms arose not only from other similar organisms but also spontaneously

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


31)   Life originated during:

a. Pre-cambrian period
b. Mesozoic era
c. Coenozoic era
d. Proterozoic era
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Pre-cambrian period

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


32)   Which of the following theories of origin of life was contradicted by experiment of Louis-Pasteur:

a. Theory of special creation
b. Cosmozoic theory
c. Biogenesis
d. Abiogenesis
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Biogenesis

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


33)   Experiments of Spallazani and Pasteur lead to the conclusion that:

a. Air is essential for biogenesis
b. Air is not essential for biogenesis
c. The air went out of the jars and carried micro-organisms with it
d. It was merely a chance
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Air is essential for biogenesis

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


34)   Louis-Pasteur succeeded in disproving the spontaneous generation theory because:

a. He was lucky enough
b. He was ingenious in crawing out necks of glass flasks so as to provide access to air but not to micro-organisms
c. Air must have gone out through holes of corks and must have carried the micro-organisms along with it
d. Of the fact that the yeast sample taken by him was dead
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: He was ingenious in crawing out necks of glass flasks so as to provide access to air but not to micro-organisms

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


35)   Instruments in the hospital are boiled prior to surgery in order to make them:

a. Clean for use
b. Sterilized
c. Immunized
d. Pasteurised
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sterilized

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


36)   Moon is:

a. A planet
b. Satellite of Earth
c. Both of these
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Satellite of Earth

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


37)   There is no life on Moon because there is deficiency of:

a. Carbon
b. Hydrogen
c. Nitrogen
d. Water
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Water

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


38)   Why is it must to boil the instruments in hospitals before surgery:

a. To kill all pathogene present at the site of operation in the patient's body
b. To kill all the pathogene which may be infecting the insturment
c. To facilitate the handling of instruments
d. To enable the patient to feel warm during operation
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: To kill all the pathogene which may be infecting the insturment

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


39)   The organism having characteristics of both living and non-living are:

a. Bacteria
b. Monera
c. Viruses
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Viruses

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


40)   True nucleus is not present in:

a. Fungi
b. Green Algae
c. Viruses
d. Lichens
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Lichens

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


41)   Which of the following statement is true for viruses:

a. They always have RNA
b. They always have DNA
c. They are only bacteriophage
d. They multiply in host cells
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: They multiply in host cells

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


42)   Prokaryotic Genetic System contains:

a. DNA and histones
b. DNA or histones
c. Only DNA and no histones
d. Neither DNA nor histones
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Only DNA and no histones

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


43)   Viruses are:

a. Unicellular
b. Bicellular
c. Multicellular
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: None of these

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


44)   A Virion is:

a. Outer covering of the virus
b. Inactive particle - like form of virus
c. DNA complex of the virus
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Inactive particle - like form of virus

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


45)   Virion of a virus consists of:

a. Caspid and DNA
b. Caspid and both nucleic acids
c. Caspid and RNA
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Caspid and both nucleic acids

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


46)   Which of the following planets has conditions essential for life:

a. Japiter
b. Mars
c. Venus
d. Mercury
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Mars

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


47)   Genetic system in prokaryotes and eukaryotes:

a. Are similar and enclosed in the nuclei
b. Dissimilar but enclosed in nuclei
c. Differ in the fact that prokaryotes system lack histones
d. Differ in several respects
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Differ in the fact that prokaryotes system lack histones

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


48)   A Cell devoid of nuclear membrane and mitochondria will belong to:

a. Bacteria
b. Protozoans
c. Sponges
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Bacteria

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


49)   Chemosynthetic bacteria are able to:

a. Synthesize all their food
b. Utilize radiant energy for preparation of food
c. Perform both these functions
d. Perform none of these functions
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Utilize radiant energy for preparation of food

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


50)   Miller synthesized:

a. Aminoacid
b. Proteins
c. Carbohydrates
d. Vitamins
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Proteins

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


51)   Carbondioxide of the present atmosphere is entirely produced by:

a. Forest fire
b. Respiration of animals and plants
c. Industrial smoke
d. Microbial activity
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Respiration of animals and plants

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


52)   Miller synthesized simple amino acids from:

a. Hydrogen, Ammonia, Methane and Water Vapours
b. Ammonia, Methane, Cyanide and Oxygen
c. Methane, Cyanide, Hydrogen and Oxygen
d. Hydrogen, Oxygen Nitrogen and water
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Hydrogen, Ammonia, Methane and Water Vapours

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


53)   Nucleoproteins most probably gave the first sign of:

a. Life
b. Evolution
c. Matation
d. Speciation
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Speciation

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


54)   Oxygen present in the atmosphere has been formed by:

a. Evaporation of sea water
b. Photosynthesis by plants
c. Putrefaction of animals and plants
d. Metabolism of micro-organisms
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Photosynthesis by plants

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


55)   It can be concluded on the basis of Miller's experiment that:

a. Organic compounds contain hydrogen, oxygen and carbon
b. Complex organic compound were first formed on the primitive earth
c. Life originated in form of amino acid
d. The organic compound can be synthesized in the laboratory
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Life originated in form of amino acid

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


56)   Most important condition for the origin of life is presence of:

a. Oxygen
b. Nittogen
c. Water
d. Carbon
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Nittogen

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


57)   Life originated about:

a. One billion years ago
b. Three billion years ago
c. Six billion years ago
d. Nine billion years ago
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Three billion years ago

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


58)   Louis Pasteur is known for:

a. Germ Theory of disease
b. Germ Plasm Theory
c. Recapitulation Theory
d. Cell Theory
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Germ Theory of disease

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


59)   Life originated:

a. In air
b. On land
c. In water
d. In all of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: In water

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


60)   Which of the following must have evolved in the direction of "Origin of Life":

a. Proteins and amino acids
b. Proteins and nucleic acids
c. Urea and proteins
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Proteins and amino acids

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!