Zoology Quiz 18 (20 MCQs)

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1. What does the term echinoderm mean?

Correct Answer: C) Spiny skin.

2. Which two groups of fish have cartilaginous skeletons?

Correct Answer: A) Agnatha and Chondrichthyes.

3. Spiny skin, hard endoskeletons, live in salt water, EX:Sea star

Correct Answer: A) Echinoderms.

4. Nucleus discover by Robert Brown.

Correct Answer: B) True.

5. Means toward the face or toward the front

Correct Answer: A) Anterior.

6. What is the physical location where plants and animals live?

Correct Answer: B) Habitat.

7. People with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus will be affected by.

Correct Answer: A) Ketoacidosis,.

8. Sharks, skates, and rays are all classified in which class?

Correct Answer: A) Chondrichthyes.

9. Which fossil provides clues about the activities of ancient organisms?

Correct Answer: C) Trace fossils.

10. What are three main body parts of an insect?

Correct Answer: D) Head, thorax, abdomen.

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

Correct Answer: A) 4.

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

Correct Answer: A) Operant conditioning.

13. What is the relationship between DNA and chromosomes?

Correct Answer: A) Chromosomes are made of DNA.

14. Which animals are NOT classified as vertebrates?

Correct Answer: C) Arthropods.

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

Correct Answer: B) UAA, UAG, UGA.

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

Correct Answer: A) True.

17. What is the study of amphibians and reptiles?

Correct Answer: B) Herpetology.

18. When animals shed their exoskeleton it is called:

Correct Answer: B) Molting.

19. Far From

Correct Answer: C) Distal.

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

Correct Answer: C) Lamarck.