Biology

Invertebrate Zoology

634 Questions

Invertebrate zoology covers the anatomical and physiological characteristics of animals without backbones, focusing heavily on insects, earthworms, and other arthropods. These questions explore structural components like respiratory organs and excretory systems. This topic forms a crucial part of the biology section in various competitive exams.

Cockroach anatomyEarthworm organsInsect ordersRespiratory organsExcretory organs

Invertebrate Zoology Questions

Multiple choice
  1. Lungs

  2. Gills

  3. Trachea

  4. Book lungs

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

In phylum Arthropoda, different types of respiratory organs had evolved. In terrestrial arthropods book lungs and trachea developed.In scorpions and spiders, respiration takes place by book lungs.

Multiple choice
  1. Holometabolic metamorphosis

  2. Hemimetabolic metamorphosis

  3. Paurometabolic metamorphosis

  4. Ametabolic development

  5. Hyper metamorphosis

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

It is a simple, gradual and direct metamorphosis in which immature forms resemble the adult, except in size, and are referred to as nymphs. Grasshoppers have paurometabolic type of metamorphosis.

Multiple choice
  1. Through skin

  2. Through gills

  3. By lungs

  4. By tracheal system

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Insects respire through a network of tiny tubes called tracheae, which open to the outside through small holes known as spiracles.

Multiple choice
  1. cuticle of larva

  2. salivary glands of larva

  3. cocoon

  4. salivary glands of adult

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Each cocoon of silk worm (Bombyx mori) has about 1000 meter of silk thread. During its short life the female moth lays about three to five hundred whitish eggs. A minute caterpillar larva hatches out from each egg in about 10 days. The larva starts pouring out its sticky saliva through a minute aperture called spinneret located upon the lower lip of its mouth. As it comes out in air the lpuid saliva immediately solidify into a fine silk thread. 

Multiple choice
  1. Pharyngeal and septal

  2. Septal and integumentary

  3. Integumentary and pharyngeal

  4. Integumentary only

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The septal nephridia and pharngeal nephridia dishcarge thier waste products into the lumen of the alimentary canal and not outside. These are knwon as enteronephric types of nephridia. In Pheretima three types of nephridia are present

  1.        Septal nephridia
  2.        Pharyangeal nephridia
  3.        Integumentary nephridia. 
Multiple choice
  1. spark cells

  2. flame cells

  3. fire cells

  4. None of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Flame cells are the specialized excretory cells found in the simplest freshwater invertebrates, including flatworms like tapeworms, to remove waste materials.