Multiple Choice Questions
Multiple Choice Questions
Q.1. Hair-like cilia or whip-like flagella for locomotion are present in kingdom :
(a) Monera
(b) Protista
(c) Fungi
(d) Plantae
Q.2. The branch of biology which deals with the principles and practice of classification of plants and animals is :
(a) Taxonomy
(b) Morphology
(c) Ecology
(d) Geology
Q.3. The organisms having ‘pores’ all over the body and a canal system for bringing in food and oxygen belongs to phylum :
(a) Coelenterata
(b) Porifera
(c) Annelida
(d) Echinodermata
Q4. Allor ganisms that are similar enough to breed and perpetuate are called :
(a) Genera
(b) Phylum
(c) Family
(d) Species
Q.5. Which among the following have open circulatory system?
(i) Arthropoda
(ii) Mollusca
(iii) Annelida
(iv) Coelenterata
(a) (i) and (ii)
(b) (iii) and (iv)
(c) (i) and (iii)
(d) (ii) and (iv)
Q.6. In which group of animals, coelom is filled with blood ?
(a) Arthropoda
(b) Annelida
(c) Nematoda
(d) Echinodermata
Q.7. Elephantiasis is caused by :
(a) Wuchereria
(b) Pinworm
(c) Planarians
(d) Liver flukes
Q.8. Which one is the most striking or (common) character of the vertebrates ?
(a) Presence of notochord
(b) Presence of triploblastic condition
(c) Presence of gill pouches
(d) Presence of coelom
Q.9. Find out incorrect sentence:
(a) Protista includes unicellular eukaryotic organisms
(b) Whittaker considered cell structure, mode and source of nutrition for classifying the organisms in five kingdoms
(c) Both Monera and Protista may be autotrophic and heterotrophic
(d) Monerans have well defined nucleus
Q.10. Which among the following has specialised tissue for conduction of water ?
(i) Thallophyta
(ii) Bryophyta
(iii) Pteridophyta
(iv) Gymnosperms
(a) (i) and (ii)
(b) (ii) and (iii)
(c) (iii) and (iv)
(d) (i) and (iv)
Q.11. Which among the following have scales ?
(i) Amphibians
(ii) Pisces
(iii) Reptiles
(iv) Mammals
(a) (i) and (iii)
(b) (iii) and (iv)
(c) (ii) and (iii)
(d) (i) and (ii)
Q.12. Find out the false statement :
(a) Aves are warm-blooded, egg laying and have four chambered heart
(b) Aves have feather covered body, fore limbs are modified as wing and breathe through lungs
(c) Most of the mammals are viviparous
(d) Fishes, amphibians and reptiles are oviparous
Q.13. The locomotory organs of Echinodermata are :
(a) Tube feet
(b) Muscular feet
(c) Jointed legs
(d) Parapodia
Q.14. Corals are :
(a) Poriferans attached to some solid support
(b) Cnidarians, that are solitary living
(c) Poriferans present at the seabed
(d) Cnidarians that live in colonies
Q.15. Which among the following produce seeds ?
(a) Thallophyta
(b) Bryophyta
(c) Pteridophyta
(d) Gymnosperms
Q.16. Which one is a true fish ?
(a) Jellyfish
(b) Starfish
(c) Dogfish
(d) Silverfish
Q.17. Which among the following is exclusively marine ?
(a) Porifera
(b) Echinodermata
(c) Mollusca
(d) Pisces
Q.18. 5-Kingdom classification was given by :
(a) Morgan
(b) R. Whittaker
(c) Linnaeus
(d) Haeckel
Q.19. Well defined nucleus is absent in :
(a) Blue-green
(b) Diatoms
(c) Algae
(d) Yeast algae
Q.20. The ‘Origin of Species’ is written by :
(a) Linnaeus
(b) Darwin
(c) Haeckel
(d) Whittaker
Q.21. Skeleton is made entirely of cartilage in :
(a) Sharks
(b) Tuna
(c) Rohu
(d) None of these
Q.22. One of the following is not an Annelid ?
(a) Nereis
(b) Earthworm
(c) Leech
(d) Urchins
Q.23. The book ‘Systema Naturae’ was written by :
(a) Linnaeus
(b) Haeckel
(c) Whittaker
(d) Robert Brown
Q.24. The animals having blood-filled coelomic cavity belongs to phylum:
(a) Arthropoda
(b) Mollusca
(c) Annelida
(d) Echinodermata
Q.25. The animals having two chambered heart belongs to the class :
(a) Amphibia
(b) Reptilia
(c) Pisces
(d) Aves
Q.26. The system of scientific naming was introduced by :
(a) Ernst Haeckel
(b) Robert Whittaker
(c) Carl Woese
(d) Carolus Linnaeus
Q.27. Organisms without nucleus and cell organelles belong to :
(i) Fungi
(ii) Protista
(iii) Cyanobacteria
(iv) Archaebacteria
(a) (i) and (ii)
(b) (iii) and (iv)
(c) (i) and (iv)
(d) (ii) and (iii)
Q.28. Which of the following is not a criterion for classification of living organisms ?
(a) Body design of the organism
(b) Ability to produce one’s own food
(c) Membrane-bound nucleus and cell organelles
(d) Height of the plant
Q.29. The feature that is not a characteristic of protochordata ?
(a) Presence of notochord
(b) Bilateral symmetry and coelom
(c) Jointed legs
(d) Presence of circulatory system
Q.30. Real organs are absent in :
(a) Mollusca
(b) Coelenterata
(c) Arthropoda
(d) Echinodermata
Q.31. Hard calcium carbonate structures are used as skeleton by :
(a) Echinodermata
(b) Protochordata
(c) Arthropoda
(d) Nematoda
Q.32. Pteridophyta do not have :
(a) Root
(b) Stem
(c) Flowers
(d) Leave
Q.33. Identify a member of porifera :
(a) Spongilla
(b) Euglena
(c) Penicillium
(d) Hydra
Q.34. Which is not an aquatic animal ?
(a) Hydra
(b) Jellyfish
(c) Corals
(d) Filaria
Q.35. Amphibians do not have the following:
(a) Three chambered heart
(b) Gills or lungs
(c) Scales
(d) Mucus glands
Q.36. In taxonomic hierarchy family comes between :
(a) Class and Order
(b) Order and Genus
(c) Genus and Species
(d) Division and Class
Q.37. Plants that do not have well-differentiated body design fall into the group called:
(a) Pteridophyta
(b) Thallophyta
(c) Bryophyta
(d) Gymnosperms
Q.38. The common name for Fasciola hepatica and Taenia solium are:
(a) Liver fluke and Tapeworm
(b) Liver fluke and Roundworm
(c) Liver fluke and Pinworm
(d) Roundworm and Tapeworm
Q.39. The phylum in which organisms contain pseudocoelom is :
(a) Platyhelminthes
(b) Annelida
(c) Arthropoda
(d) Nematoda
Q.40. Sehaj and Sidak observed an animal in their garden. Sehaj called it an insect while Sidak said it was an earthworm. Choose the character from the following which confirms that it is an insect :
(a) Bilateral symmetrical body
(b) Body with jointed legs
(c) Cylindrical body
(d) Body with little segmentation
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