This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Zoology – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Zoology Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Roundworms belong to A) Platyheminthes. B) Annelids. C) Nematodes. D) Cnidaria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nematodes. 2. Genotype or Phenotype:ff A) Phenotype. B) Genotype. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Genotype. 3. Jawless fish-Hagfish, Lampreys-belong to A) Chondrichtyes. B) Agnatha. C) Reptile. D) Osteichthyes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Agnatha. 4. There are ..... groups of vertebrates A) 4. B) 2. C) 5. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5. 5. Anemone-Sea Lemon A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 6. Mollusks have soft body protected by a hard shell. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 7. Which shape would be best for a fish to be a good swimmer in open water? A) Top to Bottom Flat. B) Torpedo. C) Side to Side Flat. D) Long and Round. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Torpedo. 8. Which rodent carried the Black Plague? A) Rabbits. B) Capybaras. C) Rats. D) Squirrels. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rats. 9. Phagocytosis is shown by A) Lymphocytes and neutrophils. B) Monocytes and Eosinophils. C) Monocytes and basophills. D) Neutrophils and monocytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neutrophils and monocytes. 10. What is the science of classification of animals and plants? A) Taxonomy. B) Entomology. C) Ichthyology. D) Zoology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Taxonomy. 11. The total volume of air a person can exhale after normal expiration A) A inspiratory capacity. B) B vital capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A inspiratory capacity. 12. What family are jackals from? A) Ursidae. B) Canidae. C) Mustelidae. D) Procyonidae. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Canidae. 13. What is an internal skeleton? A) Exoskeleton. B) Enterskeleton. C) Endoskeleton. D) Ectoskeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Endoskeleton. 14. The eggs of a frog. A) Frogspawn. B) Larva. C) Tadpole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frogspawn. 15. What does binomial nomenclature use to name species? A) The names of discoverers. B) Numerical codes. C) Common names. D) Latin or Ancient Greek words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Latin or Ancient Greek words. 16. Which of the following organs are used for pumping of blood and nutrients throughout the body? A) Stem. B) Heart. C) Artery. D) Vein. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heart. 17. What is the body plan of Phylum Mollusca? A) Soft, unsegmented and has strong muscular foot. B) Covered with spiny surface, with an internal skeleton inside their body. C) Body with differentiated segments, and paired jointed appendages. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soft, unsegmented and has strong muscular foot. 18. Which type of growth occurs with unlimited resources? A) Logistic. B) Exponential. C) Both. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exponential. 19. Two chambered heart occurs in: A) Fish. B) Crocodiles. C) Aves. D) Amphibians. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fish. 20. What is an "enigma" ? A) Something straightforward and easily understood. B) A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand. C) A common and ordinary occurrence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand. 21. White fur helps to ..... with surroundings A) Action. B) Kick. C) Fur. D) Blend in. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fur. 22. ..... is the science of naming organisms. A) Biology. B) Zoology. C) Morphology. D) Taxonomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Taxonomy. 23. How do you abbreviate the scientific name? A) First letter of the first word and full second word. B) First letter of both words. C) You can't abbreviate the scientific name. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First letter of the first word and full second word. 24. Toads spend more time in water than frogs do. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 25. What is the average weight of a Black Caiman? A) 1234lb. B) 300lb. C) 2345kg. D) 300kg. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 300kg. 26. The study of fishes is known as A) Ichthyology. B) Ornithology. C) Entomology. D) Mammology. E) Herpetology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ichthyology. 27. Why is the contractile vacuole more common in freshwater protozoa? A) Because its cytoplasm is in balance with the environment. B) Because they have a hypertonic cytoplasm in relation to the environment. C) Because they need to accumulate more water in their cells. D) Because they are more vulnerable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because they have a hypertonic cytoplasm in relation to the environment. 28. Order of amphibians that includes salamanders A) Anura. B) Caudata. C) Gymnophiona. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caudata. 29. Which of the following is NOT a placental mammal? A) Frog. B) Rabbit. C) Dog. D) Cat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frog. 30. What does the adverb "voraciously" mean? A) Slowly and hesitantly. B) With great eagerness or enthusiasm. C) Carefully and cautiously. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) With great eagerness or enthusiasm. 31. Extra credit:What is it called when a great white launches itself out of the water while hunting? A) Breaching. B) Jumping. C) Breaking. D) Launching. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Breaching. 32. Which bird huddled together A) Elephant. B) Penguin. C) Polar bear. D) Duck tags3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Penguin. 33. This red star refers to the frog's ..... A) Small intestine. B) Spiral valve. C) Stomach. D) Large intestine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Large intestine. 34. This animal is from ..... A) Africa. B) Europe. C) Asia. D) Antarctica. E) America. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Europe. 35. What is the major difference between vertebrates and invertebrates? A) Vertebrates have a backbone and invertebrates do not. B) Invertebrates have a backbone and vertebrates do not. C) Invertebrates live in water and vertebrates do not. D) Invertebrates are smaller than vertebrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vertebrates have a backbone and invertebrates do not. 36. Which domain is known for containing extremophiles? A) Eukarya. B) Bacteria. C) Archaea. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Archaea. 37. True/False:Bilby are endangered like the bandicoot? A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 38. Lowest level in taxonomic hierarchy A) Species. B) Kingdom. C) Phylum. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Species. 39. What does precocial mean? A) Undeveloped birds that require parental care until they can walk, stand and survive on their own. B) Well developed birds that when hatched can survive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Well developed birds that when hatched can survive. 40. How many Madagascar big-headed turtles are left? (estimated) A) 5, 000. B) 100. C) 500. D) 10, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 10, 000. 41. Which shows the evolutionary "time" separating taxa? A) Cladogram. B) Phylogenetic tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phylogenetic tree. 42. The Triassic Period, the Jurassic Period, and the Cretaceous Period occurred in what era? A) Cenozoic. B) Mesozoic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mesozoic. 43. When you learn about the cells and tissues that make up the fish, you are learning its ..... A) Physiology. B) Anatomy. C) Morphology. D) Taxonomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anatomy. 44. This is a term for something that has no symmetry A) Unilateral. B) Bilateral. C) Non-symmetrical. D) Asymmetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Asymmetry. 45. When a crocodile closes it's mouth, you can see all of it's teeth. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 46. WHICH OF THESE STATEMENTS ABOUT THE "LET'S GO" RUMBLE VOCALIZATION IS TRUE? A) B. B) C. C) D. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) D. 47. During evolution number of genes united to form ..... A) A Bacteria. B) B virus. C) C proto viruses. D) D None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) C proto viruses. 48. Which side of the sea star is the top side? A) Aboral surface. B) Oral surface. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aboral surface. 49. Sponges are invertebrates with no heads arms and with legs. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 50. This order name comes from the Greek word meaning "one who digs in the south" A) Order Diprotodontia. B) Order Marsupialia. C) Order Notoryctemorphia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Order Notoryctemorphia. 51. Bony fishes that include perch, trout, catfish, salmon, seahorses A) Class Osteichthyes. B) Superclass Gnathostomata. C) Class Chondrichthyes. D) Superclass Agnatha. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Class Osteichthyes. 52. The two parts of the scientific name in binomial nomenclature is ..... A) Class, genus. B) Family, order. C) Species, genus. D) Genus, species. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Genus, species. 53. A female reproductive pore is found in earthworms A) Ah 14th continent. B) A is the 18th continent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ah 14th continent. 54. Which of the following is NOT consistent with modern Cell Theory? A) All organisms are made up of one or more cells. B) The cell is the basic unit of life. C) Cells arise from spontaneous generation. D) Cells arise from other cells through cell division. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cells arise from spontaneous generation. 55. An organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it. A) Classical conditioning. B) Imprinting. C) Habituation. D) Migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Habituation. 56. Which pair is most closely related: A) Foxes and rats. B) Cats and dogs. C) Insects and lobsters. D) Snakes and frogs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Insects and lobsters. 57. Suffering from Jokeransyndrome A) Salivary gland. B) Lacrimal gland. C) Both of the above. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both of the above. 58. Ideas concerning the theory of organic evolution were published and supported with convincing evidence by Charles Darwin in A) 1923. B) 1859. C) 1602. D) 1750. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1859. 59. What communication method allows ants to work together? A) Communication with sight. B) Communication with sound. C) Another method of communication not listed here. D) Communication with scent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Communication with scent. 60. A swedish Botanist that is pioneer of modern taxonomy A) Charles Linnaeus. B) Carl Linnaeus. C) Carolus Linnaean. D) Charles Linnaeus. 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