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Animal and plant kingdom - Test Set 1

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  1. Question 1

    Which one of the following is a Reptile?
    1. Salamander
    2. Turtle
    3. Newt
    4. Shark
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  2. Question 2

    Which one of the following is a protozoa?
    1. Pea mosaic
    2. Entamoeba hystolytica
    3. Yeast
    4. Variola
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  3. Question 3

    Malaria is caused by:
    1. Plasmodium
    2. Anopheles mosquito
    3. Culex mosquito
    4. Bad air
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  4. Question 4

    According to Darwin the unit of Natural Selection is:
    1. Individual
    2. Family
    3. Gene
    4. Species
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  5. Question 5


    Which one of the following animal possess least number of body segments?
    1. Flat worm
    2. Earth worm
    3. Prawn
    4. Cockroach
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  6. Question 6

    Which one is not a protozoa?
    1. Hydra
    2. Euglena
    3. Amoeba
    4. Paramoecium
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  7. Question 7

    Which one of the following is a polymorphic species?
    1. Garden lizard
    2. Spider
    3. Gorilla
    4. Ant
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  8. Question 8

    The number of cervical vertebrae in mammal is:
    1. Seven
    2. Seventeen
    3. Seventy seven
    4. Eleven
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  9. Question 9

    Limbless Amphibia belongs to the order:
    1. Urodela
    2. Anura
    3. Gymnophiona
    4. None of the above
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  10. Question 10

    Birds differ from bat in the absence of:
    1. Warm blood
    2. Four chambered heart
    3. Trachea
    4. Diaphragm
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  11. Question 11

    Grub is the larva of:
    1. Insects
    2. Crustacea
    3. Beetle
    4. Sponges
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  12. Question 12

    Which one of the following animal phylum is latest by discovery?
    1. Pogonophora
    2. Kinorhyncha
    3. Loricifera
    4. Ctenophora
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  13. Question 13

    A mammal that lays eggs:
    1. Talpa
    2. Echidna
    3. Pteropus
    4. Lemur
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  14. Question 14

    ‘Seahorse’ is a:
    1. Mammal
    2. Fish
    3. Plant
    4. None of the above
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  15. Question 15

    Which one of the following animals is not ‘warm-blooded’?
    1. Hen
    2. Tiger
    3. Bat
    4. Toad
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  16. Question 16

    ‘Ornithology’ is the science of:
    1. Reptile
    2. Amphibia
    3. Bird
    4. Mammal
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  17. Question 17

    Identify the animal that does NOT have bilateral symmetry.
    1. Annelida
    2. Mollusca
    3. Arthropoda
    4. Cnidarian
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  18. Question 18

    Which group of Kingdom Animalia has unsegmented, bilaterally symmetrical, soft bodies, with a triploblastic construction (comprising three layers of cells) and lacking a coelom, skeleton, and anus?
    1. Cnidaria
    2. Ctenophora
    3. Platyhelminthes
    4. Porifera
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  19. Question 19

    In which of the following animal phyla is the body divided into head, thorax, and abdomen?
    1. Annelida
    2. Mollusca
    3. Arthropoda
    4. Chordata
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  20. Question 20

    Identify an endoparasite found in animals.
    1. Pleurobrachia
    2. Ctenoplana
    3. Flatworms
    4. Adamsia
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