CSS Zoology Questions & Answers - Set 37

1)   Fore wings in cockroach are called:

a. Arolium
b. Tegmina
c. Halters
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Tegmina

Explanation:
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2)   Hind wings in cockroach are:

a. Lathery
b. Membranous
c. Reduced
d. Absent
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Membranous

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


3)   Veins in the wings are used for:

a. Supplying materials
b. Support
c. Folding
d. Movement
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Supplying materials

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


4)   Number of pregenital segments in female cockroach is:

a. 5
b. 6
c. 7
d. 8
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 6

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


5)   Number of genital segments in female:

a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. Four
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Three

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


6)   Number of genital segments in male cockroach is:

a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. Four
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: One

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


7)   Pregenital segment in male cockroach is the abdominal segment numbering:

a. 7th
b. 8th
c. 9th
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 7th

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


8)   Number of spiracles in the abdomen of cockroach is:

a. 5 pairs
b. 6 pairs
c. 7 pairs
d. 8 pairs
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 8 pairs

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


9)   Common features of tracheae of cockroach and rabbit is that both:

a. Have crtilagenous rings
b. Have no-collagsible walls
c. Are paired and branched
d. Are endodermal in origin
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Have no-collagsible walls

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


10)   Haemoglobin containing red blood is absent in:

a. Rat
b. Mosquito and house-fly
c. Earthworm
d. Bird
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Mosquito and house-fly

Explanation:
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11)   Reduced wings are present in:

a. Periplanata
b. Blatta
c. Mosquito
d. House-fly
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Mosquito

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


12)   Number of postgenital segments in cockroach is:

a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. Four
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: One

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


13)   Anal cerci in cockroach are present in between:

a. Epiproct and paraproct
b. Two paraprocts
c. Tergum and epiproct
d. Tergum and sternum
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Epiproct and paraproct

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


14)   Space enclosed by mouth-parts in cockroach is called:

a. Oral cavity
b. Pre-oral cavity
c. Buccal cavity
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Pre-oral cavity

Explanation:
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15)   Food chamber in the cockroach is called:

a. Salivarium
b. Cibarium
c. Food meatus
d. Oral cavity
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Cibarium

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


16)   Which of these is not the part of stomodaeum in cockroach:

a. Proventriculus
b. Ventriculus
c. Crop
d. Oesophagus
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Ventriculus

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


17)   Crushing membrane is found in:

a. Crop
b. Proventriculus
c. Ventriculus
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Proventriculus

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


18)   Innermost lining of corp is:

a. Cuticular intima
b. Basement membrane
c. Epithelium
d. Muscles
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Cuticular intima

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


19)   Stomodaeal valve of cockroach controls:

a. Proventriculus and ventriculus
b. Oesophagus and crop
c. Oesophagus and proventriculus
d. Buccal cavity and oesophagus
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Proventriculus and ventriculus

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


20)   Excretory tubules of cockroach ae termed:

a. Malpighhian tubules
b. Caeca
c. Nephridia
d. Flame cells
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Malpighhian tubules

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


21)   Gastric caeca of cockroach secrete:

a. Urea
b. Digestive juices
c. Hormones
d. Juvenile hormones
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Digestive juices

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


22)   Function of peritrophic membrane of cockroach is:

a. Digestion of food
b. Absorption of food
c. Retention of ventricular epithelium
d. Excretion
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Retention of ventricular epithelium

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


23)   Perotrophic membrane is found in:

a. Proventriculus
b. Ventriculus
c. Crop
d. Digestive caeca
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Ventriculus

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


24)   Cellulase enzyme in cockroach is secreted by:

a. Ventriculus epithelium
b. Gastric caeca
c. Salivary glands
d. Reservoir wall
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Salivary glands

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


25)   Ileum in cockroach is the art of:

a. Stomodaeum
b. Mesenteron
c. Proctodaeum
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Proctodaeum

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


26)   Rectal glands of cockroach carry out the function of:

a. Excretion
b. Hormone secretion
c. Water absorption
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Water absorption

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


27)   Structures helping in differentiating male and female cockroaches are:

a. Anal cerci
b. Anal stylets
c. Longer antennae
d. Shorter wings
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Anal stylets

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


28)   Salivary glands in cockroach open into:

a. Cibarium
b. Salivavarium
c. Buccal cavity
d. Oesophagus
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Salivavarium

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


29)   Which of the following is the meaning of organic evolution?

a. Omnis Vivo-Ex-Vivo
b. Contagium Vivum Fluidum
c. Descent with Modification
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Descent with Modification

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


30)   Who stated Man originated first as fish?

a. Anaximander
b. Lamarck
c. Osborn
d. All of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Anaximander

Explanation:
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31)   According to Osborn who is Father of concept of Evolution?

a. Lamarck
b. Aristotle
c. Empedocles
d. Cuvier
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Empedocles

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


32)   Who recognized organic Evolution as Ladder like graduation?

a. Lamarck
b. Empedocles
c. Aristotle
d. Darwin
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Aristotle

Explanation:
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33)   Possibilities of evolutionary changes are maximum in the organisms that reproduce by:

a. Spores
b. Binary Fission
c. Budding
d. Sexual reproduction
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sexual reproduction

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


34)   Taxonomy is science of study related to:

a. External feature of animals
b. Functional anatomy
c. Classification of animals and plants
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Classification of animals and plants

Explanation:
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35)   The statement that evolution of living organism follows the changes in environment is:

a. TRUE
b. FALSE
c. Rarely true
d. No idea
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: TRUE

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


36)   Archaeopteryx is a connecting link between:

a. Amphibians and reptiles
b. Reptiles and birds
c. Birds and mammals
d. Amphibians and birds
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Reptiles and birds

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


37)   The homologous organs are the organs:

a. Having similar origin
b. Having similar function
c. Having more use
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Having similar origin

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


38)   Wings of insects and bat are example of:

a. Homologous organs
b. Analogous organs
c. Both (a) & (b)
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Analogous organs

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


39)   Analogous organs are:

a. Having similar function and similar origin
b. Having similar function but different origin
c. Found only in higher groups of animals
d. Found only in lower groups of animals
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Having similar function but different origin

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


40)   Vestigial organs are the:

a. Primordial organs
b. Organs fully developed at present but not developed earlier
c. Organs fully developed once but now reduced due to disuse
d. Organs market only in embryonic stage
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Organs fully developed once but now reduced due to disuse

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


41)   The fore limbs of man and wings of birds are example of:

a. Analogous organs
b. Homologous organs
c. Both (a) & (b)
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Homologous organs

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


42)   Homologous structures in organisms are:

a. Similar in origin but similar or dissimilar in function
b. Dissimilar in origin but different in function
c. Dissimilar both in origin and function
d. Dissimilar both in origin and structure
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Similar in origin but similar or dissimilar in function

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


43)   Peripatus is a connecting link between:

a. Annelids and arthropods
b. Arthropods and molluscs
c. Molluscs and Arthropods
d. Annelids and molluscs
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Annelids and arthropods

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


44)   Connecting link between annelids and molluscs is:

a. Neopilina
b. Peripatus
c. Archaeopteryx
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Neopilina

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


45)   Archaeopteryx a fossil discovered from Germany showed mixture of:

a. Amphibian and reptilian characters
b. Reptilian and avian characters
c. Avian and mammalian characters
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Reptilian and avian characters

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


46)   Which of the following birds had teeth in beak:

a. Kiwi
b. Ostrich
c. Archaeopteryx
d. Pelican
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Archaeopteryx

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


47)   Connecting link between mammals and reptiles are:

a. Amphibians
b. Dinosaurs
c. Protozoans
d. Prototherians
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Prototherians

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


48)   Which of the following protozoans is considered a connecting link between animals and plants:

a. Amoeba
b. Entamoeba
c. Paramecium
d. Euglena
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Euglena

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


49)   One of the following organ is not example of vestigial organ in man:

a. Plica semilunaris of eye
b. Vermiform appendix
c. Skin hair
d. Adrenal gland
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Adrenal gland

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


50)   Which of the following animals has become extinet rather recently:

a. Pterodactyl
b. Mammoth
c. Dodo
d. Dinosaurs
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Dodo

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


51)   Which are the examples of vestigials organs in man:

a. Coceyx
b. Plica semilunaris
c. Muscles of pinnae
d. All of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All of these

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


52)   Indicate which of the following sets of structures include only analogous organs:

a. Wings of butterfly, housefly and moth
b. Winds of butterfly, bat and birds
c. Hind legs of horse, grass hopper and bat
d. Mandibles of cockroach, mosquito and honey bee
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Winds of butterfly, bat and birds

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


53)   Which of the following birds is unable to fly:

a. Peacock
b. Duck
c. Emu
d. Stork
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Emu

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


54)   Wings are vestigial in which of the following birds:

a. Ostrich
b. Kiwi
c. Emu
d. All of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All of these

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


55)   Snakes do not have legs because:

a. The legs are not found in lizards
b. Ancestors of reptiles were without legs
c. Legs degenerated during evolutionary course
d. Legs are lost when snake burrows
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Legs degenerated during evolutionary course

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


56)   Evolution is an excellent working hypothesis to approach the problem of:

a. Matter, energy and life
b. Diversity of organisms
c. Environmental conditions
d. Early development of the organism
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Diversity of organisms

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


57)   Animal repeat their racial history during their embryonic development is the theme of:

a. Mutation Theory
b. Darwin's Theory
c. Recapitulation Theory
d. Probability Theory
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Recapitulation Theory

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


58)   In its most widely accepted sense, the organic evolution means Doctrine of Evolution is particularly concerned with:

a. Special creation
b. Spontaneous generation
c. Descent with modification
d. Inheritance of the parental characters
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Descent with modification

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


59)   Ontogeny repeats Phylogeny the idea was given by:

a. Lamarck
b. De Vries
c. Von Haeckel
d. Oparin
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Von Haeckel

Explanation:
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60)   Ontogemy means:

a. Life cycle of individual
b. Life cycle of all the animals of different groups
c. Both (a) & (b)
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Life cycle of individual

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!