This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Zoology – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Zoology Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is an amphibian? A) Lizard. B) Newt. C) Turtle. D) Snake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Newt. 2. Match the class of arthropods that has the characteristics listed.3 pairs of legs (a) A) Arachnid. B) A insect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A insect. 3. Stinging cell organelles-nematocysts are found only in ..... A) Phylum coelenterata. B) Dpyhylum is an echinoderm. C) Phylum porifera. D) Phylum arthropoda. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phylum coelenterata. 4. All animals belong to Domain ..... A) Eukarya. B) The animal. C) Plantae. D) Probiotics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eukarya. 5. Which of the following is an example of an exaptation? A) Feathers for flight. B) Gills for breathing. C) Legs for walking. D) Fur for warmth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Feathers for flight. 6. Have 4 main traits in common:notochord, tail, nerve cord, and pharyngeal pouch A) Metamorphosis. B) Chordates. C) Sponges. D) Molting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chordates. 7. If the systolic pressure is 120 mm Hg and diastolic pressure is 80 mm Hg the pulse pressure is A) 120+80=200 mm Hg. B) 120/80=1.5 mm Hg. C) 120-80=40 mm Hg. D) 120×80=9600 mm Hg. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 120-80=40 mm Hg. 8. All sea stars have 5 arms A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 9. This is the outer fold of skin on molluscs, and is responsible for excreting the substance that forms the mollusc's shell. A) Cockle. B) Foot. C) Mantle. D) Radula. E) Ctenidia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mantle. 10. What special way do paramecium eat? A) Sweep food into gullet-like mouth. B) Photosynthesis. C) Engulf food with pseudopods. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sweep food into gullet-like mouth. 11. What gives the sloth its greenish tint? A) The leaves it eats. B) Algae living in its fur. C) Food coloring. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Algae living in its fur. 12. Are bears mammals A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 13. The differentiation of niches that enables similar species to coexist in a community A) Character displacement. B) Climax community. C) Pioneer species. D) Resource partitioning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Resource partitioning. 14. ..... is extracted by a honey extractor from beehives A) Honey. B) Sugar. C) Juice. D) All of these tags1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Honey. 15. What characteristic is true of the exoskeleton? A) Great flexibility. B) Bones can vary in size to support mass. C) Fluid shape. D) Limits the size of the animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Limits the size of the animals. 16. The term Biotechnology was first used before A) A 18 th century. B) B before 20th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B before 20th century. 17. Passive transport are A) Movement-concentration gradient. B) Inside enter material ther is no need energy. C) Both of these. D) None of these tags4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both of these. 18. What is animal behavior? A) Examines the reaction of an animal to a certain stimulus. B) Indicates how an animal reacts with its environment. C) Reflects internal and external factors as well as learned activities. D) All of these are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these are correct. 19. Tissue found in kidney bodies and vessels A) Columnar epithelium. B) False stratum epithelium. C) Cuboidal epithelium. D) Squamous epithelium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cuboidal epithelium. 20. What does it mean to be "apoplectic" ? A) Extremely angry or furious. B) Calm and composed. C) Joyful and ecstatic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extremely angry or furious. 21. Which live on land? A) Porifera. B) Cnidarians. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neither. 22. The production of recombinant Insulin was started in A) D early 1980s. B) C late 1980s. C) B late 1970s. D) A early 1970 s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) B late 1970s. 23. The brain of the earthworm A) Aggregation of nerve cells under the throat. B) A cluster of nerve cells at the top of the throat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A cluster of nerve cells at the top of the throat. 24. Common Toads can grow up to ..... inches. A) 4. B) 3. C) 10. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 6. 25. A large group of reptiles that lived on Earth but are now extinct are called ..... A) Alligators. B) Dinosaurs. C) Salamanders. D) Tortoises. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dinosaurs. 26. Contour feathers consist of ..... with inner and outer webs. A) Barb. B) Barbu. C) Vane. D) Don't talk. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vane. 27. The dorsal portion of the turtle shell is called the A) Chestplate. B) Carapace. C) Sternum. D) The back. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carapace. 28. James found some EFFECTIVE WAYS of working with natural materials. Is that collocation true or false? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 29. The cardiac cycle last for A) A 0.5 seconds. B) B 0.8 seconds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B 0.8 seconds. 30. Which represents a frog tadpole? A) Gills, no tail, two powerful back legs. B) Lungs, no tail, and four legs. C) Gills and lungs, a tail, small legs. D) Gills, a tail, no legs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gills, a tail, no legs. 31. Which Zoologist tool is best for catching creatures like birds and butterflies? A) Tent. B) Gloves. C) Cage. D) Net. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Net. 32. Air moving around a bird's wing changes in speed and direction, creating a/an ..... force that keeps the bird in the air. A) Sideways. B) Backward. C) Upward. D) Downward. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Upward. 33. Since snakes prey on frogs, an increase in the frog population causes an increase in the snake population. A) Density-independent. B) Density-dependent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Density-dependent. 34. Order of amphibians that includes frogs and toads A) Caudata. B) Anura. C) Gymnophiona. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anura. 35. What type of body covering does a mammal have? A) Skin with hair. B) Dry, scaly skin. C) Skin with scales. D) Skin with feathers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skin with hair. 36. Imagine you're in a world where organisms within a population are throwing a party, and each one shows up with tiny, unique variations. Which creative process picks out these novel (new) forms, making the party more diverse and interesting? A) Multiplication of species. B) Perpetual change. C) Natural selection. D) Gradualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Natural selection. 37. Which part of the sponge body is a large opening at the top of the central cavity through which water leaves the sponge? A) A kiss. B) Ostia. C) Meenchyme. D) Spongocoel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A kiss. 38. When humans select desirable traits to be passed down to offspring A) Natural selection. B) Artificial selection. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Artificial selection. 39. Which of the following is a correct description of the polyp body form? A) It is sessile and the tentacles and mouth point downward. B) It is sessile and the mouth and tentacles point upward. C) It is mobile and the tentacles and mouth point downward. D) It is mobile and the tentacles and mouth point upward. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is sessile and the mouth and tentacles point upward. 40. Which of the following is a worm with a flat body? A) Ascaris. B) Rotifer. C) Tape worm. D) Fan worm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tape worm. 41. Darwin's sparrows are examples of which of the following? A) A link organisms. B) Fly Parasitic Lifestyle. C) E adaptive diffusion. D) Seasonal depression. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) E adaptive diffusion. 42. Scientists use a system called ..... to group organisms. A) Family trees. B) Taxonomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taxonomy. 43. ..... is the study of fishes. A) Biology. B) Taxonomy. C) Physiology. D) Ichthyology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ichthyology. 44. What is phylogeny? A) Evolutionary history. B) Discovery of new species. C) A type of ancient bacteria. D) Something scientists no longer use today. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Evolutionary history. 45. What is the term for a trait that is no longer functional but remains in a reduced or functionless form? A) Vestigial trait. B) Structural adaptation. C) Exaptation. D) Behavioral adaptation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vestigial trait. 46. What type of skeleton do echinoderms have? A) Endoskeleton. B) Mesenteric skeleton. C) Hydrostatic skeleton. D) Exoskeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Endoskeleton. 47. Butterfly-Buckeye A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 48. Which is an example of a crinoid? (lily-like) A) Brittle star. B) Sea lily. C) Sear star. D) Sea cucumber. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sea lily. 49. Why was it necessary for primitive cultures to know their surroundings? A) To communicate with other cultures. B) For survival. C) For entertainment purposes. D) To find their way back home. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) For survival. 50. What characteristic does someone possess if they are "tenacious" ? A) Easily discouraged and giving up quickly. B) Holding fast, persistent, determined. C) Carefree and laid-back. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Holding fast, persistent, determined. 51. What is an advantage of being sessile? A) Can easily find food. B) Can move to avoid predators. C) High oxygen consumption. D) Low energy requirement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Low energy requirement. 52. Which class of vertebrates has young that are born live? A) Amphibians. B) Fish. C) Mammals. D) Birds. E) Reptiles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mammals. 53. Which is an example of an Echinoidea member? A) Sea star. B) Sand dollar. C) Sea cucumber. D) Sea lilies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sand dollar. 54. What class does SEA CUCUMBER belongs to? A) Class Crinoidea. B) Class Echinoidea. C) Class Holothuroidea. D) Class Ophiuroidea. E) Class asteroidea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Class Holothuroidea. 55. Deficiency of vassopressin hormone causes A) Diabetes mellitus. B) Myxedema. C) Exophthalmia. D) Diabetes insipidus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diabetes insipidus. 56. Which branch of biology studies genes and heredity? A) Genetics. B) Taxonomy. C) Paleontology. D) Limnology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Genetics. 57. Diabetes is caused due to ..... A) Insulin. B) I was drunk. C) Adrenalin. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Insulin. 58. On average, organisms produce too many offspring, so A) They compete for resources. B) All options are correct. C) Some survive better than others. D) They adapt over many generations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All options are correct. 59. Animals in the phylum Cnidaria do not have brains. Instead, they have ..... that conduct signals throughout their bodies. A) Nerve pathways. B) Nerve maps. C) Nerve roads. D) Nerve nets. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nerve nets. 60. Fish under Class Agnatha have a ..... like body A) Snake. B) Ectotherms. C) Suckers. D) Placoid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Snake. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesZoology Quiz 1Zoology Quiz 2Zoology Quiz 3Zoology Quiz 4Zoology Quiz 6Zoology Quiz 7Zoology Quiz 8Zoology Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books