Zoology Quiz 55 (60 MCQs)

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1. This person is credited with the development of palaeontology. he studied fossils from different layers of rock, or stratum, and found the that the deeper down or older the fossil was, the less similar it was to modern animals, which gave evidence to evolution. He explained this by saying many disasters happened in the past.
2. Percent of animals that are chordates (vertebrates)
3. A ..... is the remains or evidence of an ancient organism.
4. Is the regular/seasonal journey of an animal from one place to another and sometimes back.
5. What is the function of the mouth on a snail?
6. ..... is essential for forming haemoglobin in the blood
7. Where are nautilus usually found?
8. The smallest bird is
9. If a person is undergoing artificial pace make transplant, then at which of the following structure of heart electrodes are connected
10. What is the name of the classification system scientist use to classify organisms?
11. Which RNA carries the amino acids from the amino acid pool to mRnA during protein synthesis?
12. Why is it important to raise awareness about the importance of biodiversity?
13. Trophical bobbit worms (Eunice aphroditois) have very conspicuous mandibles and these worms will extend their heads from the sediment at night to look for prey. The feeding type of this worm is.....
14. Starfish-Common Sunstar
15. What term describes toward the midline?
16. What type of symmetry is described here:have no pattern of symmetry at all. It can't be cut using planes of symmetry
17. WHY DOES PROFESSOR O'CONELL-RODWELL COMPARE WRITING A SCIENTIFIC PAPER WITH WRITING A NARRATIVE?
18. Speciation that occurs in populations separated by geographical barriers is
19. Hormones produced in the body due to exercise
20. Which type of worm is good for the soil because it decomposes and returns nutrients to the soil?
21. Mammillary bodies are attached to the ventral side of
22. Which describes the transformation into an amphibian adult?
23. What does "malevolence" refer to?
24. Study of milk producing animals
25. Which of the following is the site for energy production
26. Giraffes need a ..... blood pressure in order for blood to be pumped all the way up their long necks.
27. Hydra have a tree-like or a ..... appearance.
28. Which class does a scorpion belong to?
29. What are the eggs of a frog called?
30. What is the Linnaean system of classification based on?
31. " ..... are groups of actually, or potentially interbreeding populations, which are reproductively isolated from other such groups." Ernst Mayr
32. A population is never in Hardy-Wien Berg equilibrium
33. Which of the following is the most general taxon?
34. Which is the outermost layer of an animal cell
35. What is genetic diversity?
36. Members of kingdom ..... are multicellular, are often able to move about, and respond to their environment.
37. The inner layer of sponges formed of
38. Biodiversity is described as
39. Archaeopteryx is .....
40. This phylum means spiny skin and lives in water
41. An evolutionary pattern in which many species evolve from a single ancestral species
42. Archaeans that live in extremely hot temperatures
43. Which of the following steps in transcription is catalysed by RNA polymerase?
44. Class of Echinodermata that has a body that is shaped like a star with 5 arms coming from the central part where the mouth is.
45. Select living thing in the following options
46. What is systematics?
47. These frogs live in Central and South America and are known for being very poisonous.
48. Some scientists group all marsupials together into this order.
49. What is the term for a trait that provides a competitive advantage and is passed down to offspring?
50. Cross the odd one
51. Heart muscles are supplied by ..... arteries
52. Here are some statements about nephron in human identify the incorrect one of them
53. List the stages of a frog's life cycle in order.
54. The condition or period of an animal spending the winter in a dormant state
55. How does energy flow through an ecosystem?
56. The chief constituent of honey is
57. Study of animals that live on/in other animals
58. The female goats are called as doe
59. Which is not a difference between prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells?
60. An animal with bilateral symmetry can be divided into two identical halves across an imaginary dividing line. Which animal displays this type of symmetry?