Zoology Quiz 158 (20 MCQs)

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1. What do birds use during preening to keep their plumage water repellent?

Correct Answer: C) Secretions from the uropygial gland.

2. What type of body covering does a reptile have?

Correct Answer: A) Dry, scaly skin.

3. ..... factors are the living parts of an ecosystem.

Correct Answer: A) Biotic.

4. What is the main problem with using common names for species?

Correct Answer: C) They can lead to confusion about the animal's relationships.

5. What class does STARFISH belongs to?

Correct Answer: A) Class asteroidea.

6. Groups at the top of the hierarchy (kingdom, phylum, class). True or false?

Correct Answer: A) True.

7. Mesokaryon is .....

Correct Answer: C) A nucleus with condensed chromosome.

8. Pulmonary veins are those which

Correct Answer: B) Carry pure blood from lungs to heart.

9. Which type of feather is responsible for covering and streamlining a bird's body?

Correct Answer: B) Contour.

10. Which taxa is the least specific?

Correct Answer: A) Tomorrow.

11. Added Protista that included sing celled eukaryotes and bacteria (prokaryotes)

Correct Answer: B) Three Kingdom.

12. How do cnidarians reproduce?

Correct Answer: C) Both sexually and asexually.

13. Organ on the middle of the ventral side of planarians that takes in their food

Correct Answer: B) Pharynx.

14. Which of the following is NOT a mammal?

Correct Answer: B) Bird.

15. Sand dollars and sea urchins both have mouth structures called .....

Correct Answer: B) Aristotle's Lantern.

16. Which type of asexual reproduction does this picture represent?

Correct Answer: C) Regeneration.

17. What is the primary function of the beak in cephalopods?

Correct Answer: B) Feeding.

18. Phylum Mollusca is the second largest phylla

Correct Answer: A) True.

19. Fish belong to which phylum?

Correct Answer: B) Chordates.

20. Each ootheca contains nearly ..... eggs

Correct Answer: C) C 16.