Zoology Quiz 82 (20 MCQs)

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1. Lab bacteria check the growth of pathogenic microbes

Correct Answer: A) A true.

2. A female kangaroo.

Correct Answer: C) Doe.

3. Ophiology is the study of

Correct Answer: A) Snakes.

4. The giant squid the largest known invertebrate

Correct Answer: A) True.

5. Most living reptiles are

Correct Answer: B) Ectothermic.

6. Which body type is free swimming and has an umbrella shaped body with tentacles that hang down? Jellyfish have this body type.

Correct Answer: B) Medusa.

7. The cation/anion responsible for blood clotting is

Correct Answer: A) He wanted+.

8. G = green, g = yellow The genotype for a yellow plant is .....

Correct Answer: B) Gg.

9. Phylum Arthropoda includes which of the following animals

Correct Answer: D) Spiders.

10. This Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist formalized the taxonomy classification system

Correct Answer: C) Carl Linnaeus.

11. Pit-like sense organ in the roof of a snake's mouth; removes scent molecules from the tongue and transmits information to the brain

Correct Answer: C) Jacobson's organ.

12. What motivated Darwin to finally publish his work?

Correct Answer: C) Reading a similar paper by Wallace.

13. In crypsis, an animal blends in with its environment.

Correct Answer: B) Crypsis.

14. What are the main hypotheses that indicate the origin of metazoans?

Correct Answer: A) Colonial flagellated hypothesis; syncytial ciliate hypothesis and polyphyletic origin.

15. Archaeans that release methane as waste.

Correct Answer: D) Methanogens.

16. Bat waste is called .....

Correct Answer: A) Guano.

17. The largest hibernators are the .....

Correct Answer: B) Bears.

18. All spiders have..... legs?

Correct Answer: C) 8.

19. The word 'arthropoda' means .....

Correct Answer: B) Jointed foot.

20. Nematocysts (stinging cells) are used for .....

Correct Answer: C) Both of these.