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ANIMAL DIVERSITY -II
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ANIMAL DIVERSITY -II
Very Short Answer Questions
Q1. List out the characters shared by chordates and echinoderms
Q2. Write four salient features of cyclostomes
Q3. What is the importance of endostyle in lancelets and ascidians?
Q4. Name the type of caudal fin and scales that are present in a shark and Catla, respectively
Q5. What is the importance of air bladder in fishes?
Q6. How do you justify the statement- heart in fishes is a branchial heart
Q7. What are claspers? Which group of fishes possesses them?
Q8. How does the heart of an amphibian differ from that of a reptile?
Q9. Name the structures that appeared for the first time in amphibians, in the course of evolution
Q10. How do you distinguish a male frog from a female frog?
Q11. Which is called force pump in frog? Why is it named so?
Q12. What are corporabigemina? Mention their chief function
Q13. Distinguish between mesorchium and mesovarium
Q14. Distinguish between milt and spawn
Q15. What are the Golden ages of the first jawed vertebrates and the first amniotes?
Q16. Name two poisonous and non-poisonous snakes found in south India
Q17. In which features does the skin of a reptile differ from that of a frog?
Q18. Describe a cat and a lizard on the basis of their chief nitrogenous wastes excreted
Q19. Name the four extra embryonic membranes
Q20. What are Jacobson s organs? What is their function?
Q21. What are pneumatic bones? How do they help birds?
Q22. What is wish bone? What are the skeletal components that form it?
Q23. What is continuous oxygenation of the blood? How is it made possible in birds?
Q24. Distinguish between the crop and the gizzard in birds
Q25. Distinguish between altricial and precocial hatchlings
Q26. In which group of animals do we find three ear ossicles on each side and what are their names from the innermost to the outermost?
Q27. How does a mature RBC of a mammal differ from that of other vertebrates?
Q28. Name the characteristic type of vertebrae found in reptiles, birds and mammals
Q29. Name the three meninges In which group of animals do you find three of them?
Q30. Name the vertebrate groups in which the 'renal portal system' is absent
Q1. Give three major differences between chordates and non-chordates, and draw the sketch of a chordate's body showing those features
Q2. Name the four 'hallmarks' of chordates, and explain the principal function of each of them
Q3. Describe the features of a tunicate that reveal its chordate identity
Q4. Compare and contrast sea squirts and lancelets
Q5. List out eight characteristics that help distinguish a fish from the other vertebrates
Q6. Compare and contrast cartilaginous and bony fishes
Q7. Describe the structure of the heart of frog
Q8. Write eight salient features of the class Amphibia
Q9. Describe the male reproductive system of frog with the help of a labelled diagram
Q10. Write short notes on special sense organs in frog
Q11. List out the salient features of exoskeleton and endoskeleton in reptiles
Q12. List out the extant orders of the Class Reptilia Give two examples for each Order
Q13. List out the flight adaptations in birds that help them in flight
Q14. What are the features peculiar to ratite birds? Give two examples of ratite birds
Q15. Mention the most important features of nervous system and sense organs in mammals
Q16. Write short notes on the following features of the eutherians a) Dentition b) Endoskeleton
Q17. Give an example for each of the following a) A viviparous fish b) A fish possessing electric organs c) A fish possessing poison sting d) an organ which regulates buoyancy in the body of a fish e) An oviparous animal with milk producing glands.
Q18. Mention two similarities between a) Aves and mammals b) A frog and a crocodile c) A lizard and a snake
Q19. Name the following animals a) A limbless amphibian b) The largest of all living animals c) An animal possessing dry and cornified skin d) National Animal of India
Q20. Write the generic names of the following a) An oviparous mammal b) Flying fox c) Blue whale d) Kangaroo