CSS Zoology Questions & Answers - Set 33

1)   In chromosomes the material controlling heredity is:

a. Histones
b. DNA
c. Chromocentres
d. RNA
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: DNA

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


2)   Nuclein from nuclei of pus cells was separated by:

a. Miescher
b. Sutton
c. Altmann
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Miescher

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


3)   Chromosomal theory of inheritance was given by:

a. Sutton
b. Altmann
c. Miescher
d. All of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sutton

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


4)   Spacer in chromosomes is associated with:

a. H1
b. H3
c. H2a
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: H1

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


5)   Sperms do not have histones but they have

a. A basic protein protamine
b. Acid protein spermin
c. Acid protein protamine
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A basic protein protamine

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


6)   Which of these do not code for proteins:

a. Operator
b. Promotor
c. Both (a) & (b)
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Both (a) & (b)

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


7)   An operon is constituted by:

a. Operator genes
b. Promotor genes
c. Regulator genes
d. All of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All of these

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


8)   In positive regulation which of these genes are involved:

a. Promotor
b. Regulator
c. Operator
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Promotor

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


9)   Promotor gene is stimulated to interact with RNA polymerase on interacting with:

a. CAP - cAMP
b. ATP
c. CMP
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: CAP - cAMP

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


10)   Which of these in operon inhibits transcription of mRNA on combining with repressor protein:

a. Regulator gene
b. Promotor gene
c. Both (a) & (b)
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Regulator gene

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


11)   In negative regulation which of these gene of operon is involved:

a. Promotor
b. Regulator
c. Operator
d. All of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Regulator

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


12)   In eukaryotes the regulation of genes involves:

a. Chromosomal proteins
b. Chormones
c. Both (a) & (b)
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Both (a) & (b)

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


13)   Linkage was first suspected by:

a. Bateson and Punnet
b. Sutton and Boveri
c. Beadle and Tatum
d. All of these scientists
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sutton and Boveri

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


14)   Chromosomal theory of linkage was given by:

a. Miescher
b. Mendel
c. Muller
d. Morgan
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Morgan

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


15)   In test cross between hybrids of F1 generation of gray body long winged and black body vestigial winged parents Morgan found which of these ratios:

a. 1:1:1:1
b. 25:25:25:25
c. 46:37:8:9
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 46:37:8:9

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


16)   Linkage is:

a. Tendency of two genes to remain together during process of inheritance
b. Tendency of two individual to remain together
c. Tendency of two different chromosomes to remain together
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Tendency of two genes to remain together during process of inheritance

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


17)   Crossing over which means an exchange of segments between members of a homologous pair of chromosomes occurs during:

a. Amitosis
b. Mitosis
c. Meiosis
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Meiosis

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


18)   Amount of DNA in all cell of body is:

a. Constant
b. Variable
c. Constant or variable
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Constant

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


19)   Sutton and Boveri are associated with:

a. Gene theory of inheritance
b. Recapitulation theory
c. Chromosomal theory of inheritance
d. Continuity of germplasm
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Chromosomal theory of inheritance

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


20)   Distance between two genes upon a chromosome is measured in cross over units which represent:

a. Ratio of crossing over between them
b. Percentage of crossing between them
c. Number of other gene between them
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Percentage of crossing between them

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


21)   In Morgan's experiment on linkage the recombinant types of test cross with F1, hybrids of gray body long winged and black body vestigial winged parents are:

a. Gray body vestigial wings
b. Black body long wings
c. Both (a) & (b)
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Both (a) & (b)

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


22)   Percentage of recombinant types in Morgan's experiment was:

a. 13%
b. 17%
c. 23%
d. 27%
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 17%

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


23)   Sponges are primitive multicellular animals having:

a. Cellular grade of organization where there are no organs and systems
b. Tissue grade of organization where there are organs and systems in the body
c. Both of these patterns
d. None of these patterns
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Cellular grade of organization where there are no organs and systems

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


24)   Animal nature of sponges was established by:

a. Ellis
b. Crant
c. Huxley
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Ellis

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


25)   Ellis established the animal nature of these animals on the basis of:

a. Water current flowing constantly through their body
b. Branched colonial pattern of their structure
c. Presence of skeleton in their body
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Water current flowing constantly through their body

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


26)   Which of these is true for sponges:

a. Several mouths and only one exit chitinous spicules
b. Chitinous spicules
c. One mouth and several exits in the body
d. A large stomach
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Several mouths and only one exit chitinous spicules

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


27)   Who used the term porfera for sponges:

a. Ellis
b. Grant
c. Huxley
d. Sollas
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Grant

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


28)   The study of morphology and physiology of sponges was done by:

a. Grant
b. Ellis
c. Sollas
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Grant

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


29)   The term porifera means

a. Presence of many pores in the body
b. Presence of flagellated cells in body
c. Present of mesogloea
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Presence of many pores in the body

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


30)   The term 'parazoa' for sponges was used by:

a. Sollas
b. Grant
c. Ellis
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sollas

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


31)   Sponges are :

a. Bilaterally symmetrical
b. Radially symmetrical
c. Asymmetrical and radial
d. Asymmetrical
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Asymmetrical and radial

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


32)   Which of these is not a name for sponge spicules:

a. Monaxon
b. Trixon
c. Tetraxon
d. Axon
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Axon

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


33)   Canal system is characteristic of:

a. Sponges
b. Coelentrates
c. Both (a) & (b)
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sponges

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


34)   Habitat of sponges is:

a. Mostly marine
b. Mostly fresh water
c. Terrestrial
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Mostly marine

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


35)   Fresh water sponges belong to the family:

a. Arcellinidae
b. Spongillidae
c. Choristidae
d. Asconidae
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Spongillidae

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


36)   A sponge can be distinguished from other animals by the presence of:

a. Hollow body
b. Dermal papillae
c. Coelenteron
d. Choanocytes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Choanocytes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


37)   Pinacocytes are found in the body of

a. Sponges
b. Snails
c. Rabbits
d. Hydras
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sponges

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


38)   The cavity common to all types of canal systems is:

a. Incurrent canal
b. Excurrent canal
c. Radial chamber
d. Spongocoel
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Spongocoel

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


39)   Sponges possess:

a. Epithelial tissue only
b. No tissues
c. Epithelial and connective tissues
d. All four types of tissues
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: No tissues

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


40)   Tissues are not found in:

a. Corals
b. Sponges
c. Jelly-fishes
d. Star-fishes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sponges

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


41)   Flagellated cells in sponges are called:

a. Choanocytes
b. Pinacocytes
c. Porocytes
d. Thesocytes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Choanocytes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


42)   Sponges are characterized by the presence of:

a. Canal system
b. Choanocytes
c. One exit and many mouthlets
d. All of these characters
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All of these characters

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


43)   Canal system is found in which of these:

a. Star-fishes
b. Sponges
c. Corals
d. All of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sponges

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


44)   Cells secreting calcareous spicules are called:

a. Nematocysts
b. Archacocytes
c. Calcoblasts
d. Desmocytes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Calcoblasts

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


45)   Cells forming siliceous spicules are called:

a. Spongioblasts
b. Calcoblasts
c. Silicoblasts
d. Osteoblasts
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Silicoblasts

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


46)   Spongin fibres are secreted by which of these:

a. Calcoblasts
b. Silicoblasts
c. Spongioblasts
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Spongioblasts

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


47)   Sleleton forming cells are called:

a. Scleroblasts
b. Cnidoblasts
c. Collencytes
d. Desmacytes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Scleroblasts

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


48)   Water enters the body of sponges through:

a. Ostia
b. Osculum
c. Radial Canals
d. Spongocoel
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Ostia

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


49)   Cells characteristic of sponges are:

a. Nematocysts
b. Choanocytes
c. Epithelial cells
d. Amoebocytes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Choanocytes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


50)   Choanocytes are present in sponges in:

a. Inner layer
b. Outer layer
c. Both (a) & (b)
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Inner layer

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


51)   Cells ingesting food in Leucosolenia and other sponges are:

a. Pinacocytes
b. Choanocytes
c. Porocytes
d. Trophocytes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Choanocytes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


52)   Cells found only in sponges and not in other metazoa are:

a. Nematocysts
b. Nematoblasts
c. Choanocytes
d. Chondriocytes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Choanocytes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


53)   A sponge differs with other metazoa in having:

a. Several mouthlets and one opening
b. Nerve cells
c. Absence of blood
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Several mouthlets and one opening

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


54)   Gemmules are formed for:

a. Asexual reproduction
b. Sexual reproduction
c. Body growth
d. Digestion
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Asexual reproduction

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


55)   Leucosolenia is:

a. Sessile, colonial and fresh water form
b. Sessile, colonial and marine form
c. Sessile, solitary and marine
d. Free living solitary and marine
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sessile, colonial and marine form

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


56)   If carmine particles are placed in close association of living sponge, the these will:

a. Be sucked into spongocoel
b. Remain where they are
c. Be carried away from osculum
d. Rotate in a circle around osculum
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Be carried away from osculum

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


57)   Locomotion does not occur in:

a. Earthworm
b. Leucosolenia
c. Maggot of house fly
d. Amoeba
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Leucosolenia

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


58)   Gemmule formation in sponges is helpful in:

a. A sexual reproduction
b. Asexual reproduction
c. Only dissemination
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A sexual reproduction

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


59)   Canal system of Leucosolenia is:

a. Asconoid
b. Syconoid
c. Leuonoid
d. Rhagon type
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Asconoid

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


60)   Which of these canal systems is found in Scypha:

a. Syconoid
b. Asconoid
c. Leuconoid
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Syconoid

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!