Biology

Invertebrate Zoology

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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.

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Invertebrate Zoology Questions

Multiple choice biology respiration in living organisms breathing underwater respiration in other organisms respiration in organism

______ has no blood but can respire.

  1. Cockroach

  2. Hydra

  3. Snail

  4. Earthworm

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

In animals, three main types of respiratory systems exist: respiration through the skin, respiration through the gills or respiration through internal air structures. Respiration through the skin, as in the Hydra, involves the passing of molecules into and out of the body via diffusion. Aquatic animals use gills, which are structures composed of tissues and blood vessels that extend from the body, for their respiration needs. Most terrestrial animals use internal air structures, such as lungs or tracheae, to respire. Cockroach, snail and earthworm has blood. 

Therefore, the correct answer is option B.

Multiple choice biology respiration in living organisms breathing underwater respiration in other organisms respiration in organism

Consider the following pairs about the organisms and their respective respiratory organ.
1. Earthworm - Moist skin of body
2. Mosquito- Tracheal system
3. Fish- Gills
4. Birds- Lungs

  1. 1, 2, 3 and 4

  2. 1, 3 and 4

  3. 2, 3 and 4

  4. 3 and 4

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

Earthworms have no special respiratory organs. Gases are exchanged through the moist skin and capillaries, where the oxygen is picked up by the hemoglobin dissolved in the blood plasma and carbon dioxide is released.
The basic respiratory system of insects consists of a series of rigid tubes, called as tracheae.
In most of the fishes, the respiration takes place through gills.
The birds have lungs, air sacs and a syrinx and their respiration requires two cycles to move a volume of air.
Therefore, the correct answer is option A.

Multiple choice evs a treat for mosquito algae: benefits and harmful effects basics of algae types of microorganisms

Eutely means ....................

  1. Variable muscle cells

  2. Variable locomotion

  3. Constant number of cells or nuclei in individuals of a species or in parts of their bodies

  4. Strictly marine nature

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

The constant number of cells or nuclei in individuals of a species or in parts of their bodies is known as eutely.

 The largest group of animals exhibiting eutely are the nematode worms, one of the largest of all animal phyla, and of great medical and agricultural importance as parasites of plants, animals, and humans. A plant that exhibits eutely is usually called a coenobium. Many species of semimicroscopic aquatic green algae exist as coenobia, such as the common Volvox and Pandorina.

Multiple choice biology control and co-ordination in plants and animals voluntary and involuntary movements impulse and its transmission coordination in human beings- nervous control
Which of the following layers you will find in the body wall of earthworm (from outside to inside)?
  1. Non-cellular cuticle, epidermis, circular muscles, longitudinal muscles, coelomic epithelium

  2. Cuticle, epidermis, longitudinal muscles, circular muscles, coelomic epithelium

  3. Non-cellular cuticle, epidermis, coelomic epithelium, circular muscles, longitudinal muscles

  4. Cuticle, epidermis, peritoneal muscles

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

Externally the body wall of earthworm is covered by a thin non cellular cuticle below which lies the epidermis two muscle layers (circular and longitudinal) and innermost coelomic  epithelium.

Multiple choice evolutionary changes in heart transportation - the circulatory system

Alary muscles in cockroach are associated or connected with

  1. Trachea

  2. Heart

  3. Legs

  4. Alimentary canal

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

Alary muscles in cockroach are associated or connected with Heart. These muscles are attached to both dorsal and tergum diaphragm. They are triangular in shape where in the pointed end is attached to the tergum and other end is attached to dorsal diaphragm. The alary muscles are responsible for the circulation of blood. Hence option B is correct.

Multiple choice evolutionary changes in heart transportation - the circulatory system

Heart of cockroach is

  1. Four chambered

  2. Ventral to gut

  3. Longitudinal and beaded

  4. Three chambered

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

Cockroach has a 13 chambered longitudinal, thick, muscular and beaded heart. Each chamber receives oxygenated blood through slit like openings called ostia. 

Multiple choice biology biodiversity and its classifications life introduction to plant kingdom classification of organisms

.......... are called as moss animals.

  1. Loricifera

  2. Ectoprocta

  3. Acanthocephala

  4. Gastrotricha

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

The Bryozoa, also known as Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals, are a phylum of aquatic invertebrate animals. They are filter feeders that sieve food particles out of the water using a retractable lophophore a "crown" of tentacles lined with cilia. Most marine species live in tropical waters, but a few occur in oceanic trenches, and others are found in polar waters. 

Therefore, the correct answer is option B.

Multiple choice biology biology : an introduction introduction to organization of life signs of life what is living?

Mosquitoes, ant, dung beetle, butterfly, moth and cockroach all have same

  1. Number of legs

  2. Segmentation

  3. Colour of the body

  4. Both A and B

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

Mosquitoes, ant, dung beetle, butterfly, moth, and cockroach all belong to class Insecta of phylum Arthropoda. They have one pair of antennae, three pairs of legs, and three body regions i.e., head, thorax, and abdomen. Thus, the correct answer is option D.

Multiple choice zoology study of animal type - cockroach introduction to reproduction reproduction in cockroach reproductive system of cockroach

Mushroom gland is part of

  1. Male reproductive system of Cockroach

  2. Female reproductive system of Cockroach

  3. Male reproductive system of Rabbit

  4. Female reproductive system of Rabbit

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

The mushroom gland is a large accessory male reproductive gland in the cockroach, which is whitish in colour and situated at the junction of vasa deferentia with the ejaculatory duct. It has a mass of glandular tubules of three kinds, the peripheral long tubules or utriculi majors, the central tubules are small short tubules or utriculi breviores and behind the short central tubules are some short but more bulbous tubules forming the seminal vesicles filled with sperms. 

So, the correct answer is 'Male reproductive system of Cockroach'.

Multiple choice zoology study of animal type - cockroach introduction to reproduction reproduction in cockroach reproductive system of cockroach

In the female cockroach, the anterior wall, roof and floor of genital pouch are formed respectively by the following abdominal sterna of

  1. 7th, 8th and 9th segments

  2. 8th, 7th and 9th segments

  3. 9th, 8th an 7th segments

  4. 8th, 9th and 7th segments

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

Genital or brood pouch is a large boat-shaped structure whose floor is formed by the 7th sternite, roof and sides are formed by the 8th and 9th sternites. The genital pouch can be divided into a genital chamber into which vagina opens and an oothecal chamber where oothecae are formed. The genital chamber also receives the accessory reproductive glands. 

So, the correct answer is '8th, 9th and 7th segments'.

Multiple choice zoology study of animal type - cockroach introduction to reproduction reproduction in cockroach reproductive system of cockroach

Which of the following structures does not open into the genital chamber of female cockroaches?

  1. A single median oviduct

  2. Spermatheca

  3. A pair of anal cerci

  4. A pair of collateral glands

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

The genital pouch of female cockroach can be divided into two parts. The anterior smaller part containing the openings of female gonopore, pores of spermathecae and collateral glands is called genital chamber, while the larger posterior part in which ootheca is formed is called oothecal chamber or vestibulum. Oviduct doesn't open into the genital chamber.

So, the correct option is 'A single median oviduct'.