This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Zoology – Quiz 45 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Zoology Quiz 45 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Amphibians and reptiles A) Lays eggs in water. B) Poikilothermic. C) Lay eggs on land. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poikilothermic. 2. Robins typically lay fours eggs. If more then four eggs are produced then the baby chicks are malnourished while smaller egg numbers result in no viable (able to live) baby chicks. This is an example of A) Stabilizing. B) Disruptive. C) Direction. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stabilizing. 3. In which era do we currently live? A) Mesozoic. B) Jurassic. C) Cenozoic. D) Paleozoic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cenozoic. 4. What is the risk associated with eating mollusks during a red tide? A) Parasitic infection. B) Allergic reaction. C) Respiratory arrest. D) Food poisoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Food poisoning. 5. What is the function of amphibian skin? A) Respiration and protection. B) Protection. C) Helps with movement. D) Respiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Respiration and protection. 6. Protection against disease is? A) Supporting. B) Regulatory. C) Cultural. D) Provisionary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Regulatory. 7. Nudibranchs are from what class? A) Gastropods. B) Polyplacophora. C) Bivalves. D) Cephalopods. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gastropods. 8. Which of the following best describe cephalopod development from eggs? A) Direct development. B) Spat larvae. C) Trechophore larvae. D) Polyp-like strobila. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Polyp-like strobila. 9. Is the food of day time A) Lunch. B) Breakfast. C) Dinner. D) All of these tags2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lunch. 10. This is used to describe an organism that can be divided in half to create tow mirror images A) Hermaphrodite. B) Bisymmetric. C) Asymmetric. D) Radial symmetric. E) Regenerate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bisymmetric. 11. Flatworms exhibit this type of symmetry. A) Radial. B) Bilateral. C) Asymmetry. D) Octagonal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bilateral. 12. Choose the word or phrase to complete the collocation. dismiss an ..... A) Attention to. B) Point. C) Partnership. D) Offer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Offer. 13. Which type of worm was the first to show cephalization? A) Flatworm. B) Roundworm. C) Neither are cephalized. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flatworm. 14. ACCORDING TO PROFESSOR O'CONNELL-RODWELL'S ESSAY, MALE ELEPHANTS A) A. B) C. C) B. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. 15. Pokkali culture is practiced in ..... A) Tamilnadu. B) Kerala. C) Karnataka. D) Andhra Pradesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kerala. 16. Match the class of arthropods that has the characteristics listed. antennae (a) A) A insect. B) Arachnid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A insect. 17. Nucleosomes constitute the repeating unit of a structure in nucleus is A) Histone. B) Codon. C) Chromatin. D) Anticodon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chromatin. 18. Which of these fishes copy their surroundings to blend and protect themselves form predators? A) Penguin. B) Electric ray. C) Porcupine fish. D) Saillfin surgeon fish. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Saillfin surgeon fish. 19. The process by which all the different kinds of living thngs have changed over long periods of time is called A) Extinct. B) Dead. C) Geo time scale. D) Evolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Evolution. 20. What type of animal has dry scaly skin and lays its eggs on land? A) Mammal. B) Fish. C) Reptile. D) Amphibian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reptile. 21. A signal to which an organism responds. A) Imprinting. B) Classical conditioning. C) Stimulus. D) Migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stimulus. 22. What does identical fossils on widelyseparated continents us about geologic time? A) You can tell which rocks are oldest and which are youngest by their relative position. B) Every time we find index fossils, we can figure out the age of the rocks they are preserved in. C) Organisms that once lived in the ocean, indicates that Mountain summit was one the ocean floor. D) Continents were once joined together. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Continents were once joined together. 23. A catastrophic epidemic killed a large proportion of a population of deer in California thereby reducing the gene pool. This is an example of: A) The bottleneck effect. B) Genetic isolation. C) Directional selection. D) The founder principle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The bottleneck effect. 24. System of scientific nomenclature was given by ..... A) Francisco Redi. B) Leeuwenhoek. C) Charles Darwin. D) Charles Linnaeus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charles Linnaeus. 25. The older larval form of molluscs, before they reach their adult form. A) Trochophore. B) Periostracum. C) Chromatophore. D) Veliger. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Veliger. 26. The term Phylum was coined by A) Haeckel. B) Linnaeus. C) Theophrastus. D) Cuvier. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haeckel. 27. How many premolar teeth found in mouth A) 4. B) 2. C) 8 tags2. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 28. A jellyfish is covered in an outer layer of cells called the epidermis. Within the epidermis is the ....., which is the jelly-like interior of the animal. A) Mesoglea. B) Rhopalium. C) Brachial tentacle. D) Handle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mesoglea. 29. The test was really difficult ..... only one student received an A on it. A) Throughly. B) Apparently. C) Suddenly. D) Wonderfully. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apparently. 30. Which of the following is most useful for representing energy dynamics in an ecosystem A) Nutrient Cycling. B) Ecological Pyramids. C) Food Chain. D) Food Web. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecological Pyramids. 31. Red Sindhi is an exotic breed. State True/ False. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 32. Identify the correct definition of the term endoparasite: A) Lives on the surface of the host organism. B) Lives in the body cavities of the host organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lives on the surface of the host organism. 33. Which part of the cell contains organelles A) Nucleoplasm. B) Cytoplasm tags4. C) Chromosomes. D) Protoplasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cytoplasm tags4. 34. Annelids or..... type branch A) Flatworms. B) Steamworms. C) Skrebniller. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Steamworms. 35. All amphibians are vertebrate. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 36. Jellyfish are ..... A) Porifera. B) Cnidarians. C) Cephalopods. D) Echinoderms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cnidarians. 37. Can a tadpole breathe? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 38. Gastropoda, Bivalva, Cephalapoda are all classes within the Phylum ..... A) Arthropoda. B) Mollusca. C) Cnidarians. D) Porifera. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mollusca. 39. The peripheral lymphoid organs are A) A tonsils. B) B adenoids. C) C lymph node. D) D all the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) D all the above. 40. Which type of skeleton does a snail posses? A) Endoskeleton. B) Hydrostatic skeleton. C) Exoskeleton. D) Both ( hydrostatic skeleton and exoskeleton). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hydrostatic skeleton. 41. Skin with feathers A) Fish. B) Mammals. C) Birds. D) Reptiles. E) Amphibians. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Birds. 42. Which of the following sets of animals would be the most closely related? A) Animals in the same family. B) Animals in the same genus. C) Animals in the same class. D) Animals in the same order. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Animals in the same genus. 43. The baby of the kangaroo called as ..... A) Joey. B) Calf. C) Puppies. D) Cubs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Joey. 44. A word meaning:open to possibility of being harmed or attacked A) Weak. B) Threatened. C) Vulnerable. D) Tusks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vulnerable. 45. This phylum has a medusa and polyp stage, stinging tentacles, and radial symmetry. What phyla is it? A) Arthropods. B) Mollusks. C) Cnidarian. D) Annelids. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cnidarian. 46. What is the basis for modern taxonomy? A) Morphology. B) Geographical distribution. C) Behavioral characteristics. D) DNA analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Morphology. 47. Tasmanian devils produce what when nervous or scared? A) Foul odor. B) Shoot quills. C) Bigger body. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foul odor. 48. Natural selection that occurs when individuals at one phenotypic extreme have an advantage over individuals with more common phenotypes A) Stabilizing selection. B) Speciation. C) Disruptive selection. D) Directional selection. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Directional selection. 49. Which cats are amazing runners, jumpers, and swimmers who are also called pumas and mountain lions? A) Cougars. B) Leopards. C) Cheetahs. D) Canada lynx. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cougars. 50. Arthropods have an outer covering called a(n) ..... A) Armor. B) Bones. C) Exoskeleton. D) Endoskeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exoskeleton. 51. Which of the following might cause a species to become extinct? A) Overharvesting. B) Environmental balance. C) Abundant food supply. D) Perfect weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Overharvesting. 52. ..... is defined as the study of relationships of organisms to their environment and to other organisms. A) Ecology. B) Envirology. C) Physiology. D) Biology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecology. 53. A endangered species is one that is at risk of becoming ..... A) Popular. B) Overpopulated. C) Extinct. D) Endangered. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extinct. 54. Non living things can grow. A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 55. The polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) of proteins is based onthe following properties of proteins. A) Size, shape and electric charge. B) Electric charge only. C) Size and shape only. D) Size and charge only. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Size and charge only. 56. Speciation that occurs in small, local populations called demes is A) Allopatric speciation. B) Parapatric speciation. C) Sympatric speciation. D) Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parapatric speciation. 57. The prokaryotic cells are characterized by A) Absence of nuclear membrane. B) A distinct nucleus. C) Distinct chromosome. D) Absence of chromatin network. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Absence of nuclear membrane. 58. Bandicoot predators include? A) Owls, dingos, foxes. B) Koala, panda. C) Lions, tigers, bears. D) Rabbits, mice, rats. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Owls, dingos, foxes. 59. Polar bears have white ..... A) Fur. B) Coat. C) Umbrella. D) Snow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fur. 60. Attributes of groups that have been retained from a common ancestor are referred to as ..... A) Synapomorphies. B) Nodal characters. C) Derived characters. D) Symplesiomorphies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symplesiomorphies. ← 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