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Important Questions on Animal Kingdom

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Select the option from the following having matching characteristics for the mentioned group without any exception:
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Identify the vertebrate group of animals characterized by crop and gizzard in its digestive system
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Which is the National Aquatic Animal of India?
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A jawless fish, which lays eggs in freshwater and whose larvae after metamorphosis return to the ocean is
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If the student wants to study the development of zygote, internal structure and function of various pairs to assign the organism to a particular phylum, the student takes the help of following branches?
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Which of the following characteristic features always holds true for the corresponding group of animals?
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Which one of these animals is not a homeotherm?
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Which of the following has notochord throughout life?
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In the given diagram of the typical chordate. Identify the parts labelled as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and select the correct option?

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Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion and the other is labelled as Reason.

Assertion: All vertebrates are chordates, but all chordates are not vertebrates.

Reason: Notochord is replaced by a vertebral column in the adult vertebrates.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

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Which of the following statements are true for the phylum-Chordata?

(a) In Urochordata, notochord extends from head to tail, and it is present throughout their life.

(b) In Vertebrata, the notochord is present during the embryonic period only.

(c) Central nervous system is dorsal and hollow.

(d) Chordata is divided into 3 subphyla: Hemichordata, Tunicata, and Cephalochordata.

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Which among these is the correct combination of aquatic mammals?
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Which one of the following characteristics is not shared by birds and mammals?
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A marine cartilaginous fish that can produce electric current is:
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Name the classes of Tetrapoda that exhibit the following characters:

Column (A) Column (B)
Acrodont Thecodont
10 pairs cranial nerves 12 pairs cranial nerves
Cold-blooded Warm-blooded
Amphicoelous vertebrae Amphiplatyan vertebrae
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All vertebrates are chordates but all chordates are not vertebrates, why?
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Select the correct statement related to chordates.

A. Presence of a mid-dorsal, solid and double nerve cord.

B. Presence of closed circulatory system.

C. Presence of paired pharyngeal gillislits.

D. Presence of dorsal heart

E. Triploblastic pseudocoelomate animals.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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Statement (S): Chordates have a tail extending posterior to the anus. It contains skeletal elements and muscles but lacks coelom and visceral organs.

Reason (R): In aquatic organisms, it acts as a balancing organ.

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Consider following features:

  • Organ system level of organisation
  • Bilateral symmetry
  • True coelomates with segmentation of body.

Select the correct option of animal group which possess all the above characteristics: