Zoology Quiz 19 (20 MCQs)

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1. A hibernating woodchuck's heart rate slows from 80 to ..... 4 beats per minute.

Correct Answer: A) 4.

2. Dogs raid garbage cans because they have learned through trial and error that doing so leads to finding food.

Correct Answer: A) Operant conditioning.

3. What is the relationship between DNA and chromosomes?

Correct Answer: A) Chromosomes are made of DNA.

4. Which animals are NOT classified as vertebrates?

Correct Answer: C) Arthropods.

5. The three codons which result in the termination of polypeptide chain synthesis are

Correct Answer: B) UAA, UAG, UGA.

6. Eras are subdivided into units of geologic time called periods.

Correct Answer: A) True.

7. What is the study of amphibians and reptiles?

Correct Answer: B) Herpetology.

8. When animals shed their exoskeleton it is called:

Correct Answer: B) Molting.

9. Far From

Correct Answer: C) Distal.

10. The idea that aquired charateristics are passed to later generations was developed by .....

Correct Answer: C) Lamarck.

11. The living part of an ecosystem

Correct Answer: A) Biotic.

12. Human heart is ..... in nature.

Correct Answer: B) Myogenic.

13. Archaeopteryx is the first known bird and is thought to have evolved from .....

Correct Answer: A) Theropods.

14. How many parts does a crustacean's body have?

Correct Answer: B) 3.

15. Order of amphibians that includes caecilians

Correct Answer: C) Gymnophiona.

16. What does "logos" mean?

Correct Answer: B) To study.

17. What provides support and movement of organelles?

Correct Answer: C) Cytoskeleton.

18. Notochord occurs only in the larva of

Correct Answer: C) Herdmania.

19. What is the name of the phylum to which sponges belong?

Correct Answer: D) Porifera.

20. This part of a turtle shell connects the top and bottom together.

Correct Answer: C) Bridge.