This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Zoology – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Zoology Quiz 16 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The FIRST PART of an organism's scientific name. A) Species. B) Domain. C) Genus. D) Kingdom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Genus. 2. A tough wrapper of skin of octopus which covers its body is called ..... A) Spines. B) Mantle. C) Tentacles. D) Suction cups. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mantle. 3. The network of hyphae is called A) Algae. B) Haustoria. C) Mycelium tags2. D) Fungi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mycelium tags2. 4. During transcription, the site of DNA molecule at which RNA polymerase binds is called A) Enhancer. B) Receptor. C) Promoter. D) Regulator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Promoter. 5. Which of the following is an example of an anemone? A) Dahlia Anemone. B) Buckeye. C) Bumblebee. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dahlia Anemone. 6. This class has paired fins with muscular lobes, pneumatic sacs function as lungs, atria and ventricles at least partly divided. Lung fishes, coelacanths, and tetrapods A) Caudata. B) Sarcopterygii. C) Anura. D) Tetrapodomorphs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sarcopterygii. 7. The cell membrane pinches in, dividing the cytoplasm into 2 cells A) Anaphase. B) Telophase. C) Metaphase. D) Cytokinesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cytokinesis. 8. Which of the following is an invertebrate? A) Earthworm. B) Fish. C) Snake. D) Elephant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Earthworm. 9. Bats have one claw, called a ..... A) Bat thumb. B) Mega bats. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bat thumb. 10. What is the correct way to say the species name of northern flying squirrels? A) Glaucomys Sabrinus. B) Glaucomys sabrinus. C) Glaucomys sabrinus. D) Glaucomys Sabrinus. E) G. sabrinus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Glaucomys sabrinus. 11. The amino acid without chiral carbon is A) Glycine. B) Thyrosine. C) Alanine. D) Proline. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Glycine. 12. Name of a book of Carolus Linnaeus that was published in 1735. Introduced a rather clever way to classify and name organisms. A) System of Nature. B) System Nature. C) Systemic Naturae. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) System of Nature. 13. What is the stocking limit for African cichlids to combat territorial fighting issues? A) 1.5 inches per gallon. B) 1/2 inch per gallon. C) 2 inches per gallon. D) 1 inch per gallon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1.5 inches per gallon. 14. Bony fish belong to A) Osteichthyes. B) Agnatha. C) Reptile. D) Chondrichtyes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteichthyes. 15. What are the building blocks of proteins? A) Amino acid. B) Fatty acid. C) Lipid. D) Nucleotide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amino acid. 16. Darwin theorized that individuals having an advantage due to their traits or abilities will be more likely to survive and reproduce. This theory is known as A) Evolution. B) Speciation. C) Adaptation. D) Natural selection. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Natural selection. 17. "This theory is based on manual gestures, and it says that this could be a precursor of language" . This belongs to the origin of language: A) The social interaction source. B) Tool-making source. C) The natural sound source. D) The genetic source. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tool-making source. 18. Night blindness is caused by the deficiency of A) Vitamin C. B) Vitamin A. C) Vitamin D. D) Vitamin B1 tags2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vitamin A. 19. What do tadpoles use to breathe? A) Gills. B) Mouth. C) Eyes. D) Lungs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gills. 20. Which is an example of a Echinoidea? A) Sand dollar. B) Sea cucumber. C) Sea star. D) Sea lilies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sand dollar. 21. Valmiki National Park &Wildlife Sanctuary is located at A) Uttarakhand. B) Uttar Pradesh. C) Bihar. D) Assam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bihar. 22. The bony plate that covers the gills of bony fish is called the: A) Operculum. B) Ostracoderm. C) Gill rakes. D) Epiglottis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Operculum. 23. Which adaptation of the frog differentiates it from the fish? A) Ability to live in water also. B) Lays eggs in water. C) Have a streamlined body. D) Presence of mucous glands in the skin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ability to live in water also. 24. Every scientific name should have words either in Latin or be Latinized A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 25. Some animals remain and stay active in the winter. This means they must ..... to the changing weather. A) Hibernate. B) Migrate. C) Adapt. D) Escape. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adapt. 26. The department which prepares weather report is A) Meteorological department. B) Civil department tags4. C) Telecom department. D) Electrical department. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meteorological department. 27. What occurs as a result of experience, transforming animals to be more adaptive than innate in behaviors? A) Instinct. B) Learned Behaviors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Learned Behaviors. 28. Which of these is NOT a unique structure to plant cells? A) Cell wall. B) Central vacuole. C) Chloroplas. D) Nucleus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nucleus. 29. The colour of chlorophyll pigment is A) Blue tags4. B) Green. C) Red. D) Yellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Green. 30. What is the main goal of habitat restoration? A) To create new habitats for species to thrive. B) To increase the population size of endangered species. C) To restore degraded habitats to their original condition. D) To decrease the genetic diversity within populations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To restore degraded habitats to their original condition. 31. Time duration of ventricular diastole A) 0.8. B) 0.1. C) 0.3. D) 0.4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 0.4. 32. Sponges use pores to A) Move from place to place. B) Filter food from the water. C) Defend themselves. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Filter food from the water. 33. Haemoglobin constitute ..... % if haem A) D 10. B) C 4. C) A 8. D) Look. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) C 4. 34. Carbohydrates are organic compounds of A) Carbon. B) Hydrogen. C) Oxygen. D) All of these tags2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these tags2. 35. The honey bees are belong to phylum ..... A) Annelids. B) Mollusk. C) Arthropoda. D) Echino de r again. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arthropoda. 36. Most fighting between animals ends with A) Submission. B) A verbal warning. C) Death. D) Peace. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Submission. 37. Most stable conformation of cyclohexane is A) Twist boat. B) Half chair. C) Chair. D) Boat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chair. 38. Which class of vertebrates has organisms that go through metamorphosis during their life cycles? A) Reptiles. B) Mammals. C) Amphibians. D) Birds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amphibians. 39. The type of symbiosis in which both species benefit is called A) Cannibalism. B) Mutualism. C) Parasitism. D) Commensalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mutualism. 40. Which type of poultry is specifically raised for meat production?** A) Broilers. B) Commercial Layers. C) Growers. D) Ducks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Broilers. 41. Who were the geologists that said the Earth was at least a few million years old? A) Hutton and Lyell. B) Hutton and Banks. C) Banks and Lyell. D) Malthus and Darwin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hutton and Lyell. 42. How are organisms in the animal kingdom classified? A) Based on their body symmetry and development. B) Based on their diet and habitat. C) Based on their size and color. D) Based on their intelligence and social behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Based on their body symmetry and development. 43. What is the main cause of habitat loss and fragmentation? A) Deforestation. B) Overexploitation. C) Pollution. D) Climate change. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deforestation. 44. Maximum reabsorption takes place from which part of nephron? A) PCT. B) Loop of Henle. C) Collecting duct. D) DCT. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) PCT. 45. What is Genetics? A) Heredity. B) Variation. C) Both a and b. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both a and b. 46. It has an external skeleton and spines all over the body. It belongs to Phylum Echinodermata. A) Clam. B) Sea urchin. C) Snails. D) Crabs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sea urchin. 47. Phylum Porifera is known as A) "Tentacles". B) "stinging cells". C) "Sponges". D) "Cleaners". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Sponges". 48. What is an extinct species? A) A species that if removed would damage an ecosystem. B) No more members exist. C) The species will most likely die out. D) A species that is recovering. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No more members exist. 49. All worms have segmented bodies. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 50. What is the "foot" ? A) Muscular area used for locomotion. B) The thing humans use to walk. C) The organ that helps with filter feeding. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Muscular area used for locomotion. 51. Worms which can live in high moisture. A) Phylum Annelida. B) Phylum Platyhelminthes. C) Phylum Rotifera. D) Phylum Nemathelmintes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phylum Platyhelminthes. 52. The protected areas for conservation of wild life are A) National parks. B) Sanctuaries. C) Biosphere reserves. D) All of these tags3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these tags3. 53. The mantle of most molluscs A) Is used for locomotion. B) Is used to attract prey. C) Secretes a protective shell. D) Provides a place to hang up deer antlers, mount large fish, and hang Christmas stockings. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Secretes a protective shell. 54. Which of these animals possesses think layer of fat under their skin A) Beard ape. B) African elephant. C) Polar bear. D) None of these tags3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beard ape. 55. What are the organelles inside the stinging cells that inject paralyzing toxins into their prey? A) Choanocytes. B) Lysomatocyts. C) Nematocysts. D) Pinacocytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nematocysts. 56. A cave bat is an invertebrate animal. A) Fact. B) Bluff. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bluff. 57. The term for an animal that is attached and not free-swimming is? A) Sessile. B) For Moti. C) Stable. D) Moving. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sessile. 58. The basic structural and functional unit of life. A) Cell. B) Tissue. C) A and b. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cell. 59. Who is the father of ecology? A) Ernst Haeckel. B) Tansley. C) Eugene.P.Odum. D) Reiter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ernst Haeckel. 60. What is the function of blubber? A) Stores blood. B) Stores fat. C) Stores water. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stores fat. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesZoology Quiz 1Zoology Quiz 2Zoology Quiz 3Zoology Quiz 4Zoology Quiz 5Zoology Quiz 6Zoology Quiz 7Zoology Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books