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Diversity in Living Organisms

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The diversity in living organisms deals with the classification of life forms into various kingdoms and phyla. This topic covers specific traits of bacteria, animal body cavities, and structural adaptations for survival. These fundamentals are crucial for biology sections in medical entrance and state board exams.

Animal phyla characteristicsBacteria and flagellaBiological adaptationsKingdom Animalia classificationBody cavity typesExtinct organism subphylaJawless animals identification

Diversity in Living Organisms Questions

Multiple choice

Which of the following adaptations is not shown by animals living in hot and dry climate?

  1. Shiny fur with short length to reflect sunrays

  2. They cool their body by sweating and panting.

  3. Hiding themselves in burrows during daytime

  4. Have upper part of body covered with fur to protect them from Sun

  5. Have sticky pads on their feet to stick on trees
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

The feet with sticky pads to stick on trees are found in animals living in tropical regions.

Multiple choice

All birds have different kinds of beak. Which of the following factors is responsible for the type of beak they have?

  1. The type of wings they have

  2. The type of claws they have

  3. The type of food they make

  4. The type of nest they have

  5. The type of food they eat
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

This is the right answer. All birds do not eat the same kind of food. So, different birds have different types of beaks depending on the kind of food they eat. For example, eagles have strong, sharp and hooked beak to tear flesh. Type of nest does not determine the type of beak they have. So, this is a wrong answer.

Multiple choice

Which of the following statement is incorrect?

  1. The birds uses its beak to catch and hold food.

  2. Birds fly with the help of their wings.

  3. Birds have three main type of feathers.

  4. Birds have three feet with two toes on each.

  5. The home of a bird is called nest.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The ostrich is the only bird that has two toes on each foot. All other birds have three or four toes.

Multiple choice

Which of the following statement is false?

  1. Ostrich is a flightless bird

  2. Birds have heavy and solid bones

  3. Water birds use their feet to swim and wade water

  4. Birds builds their nest mostly to lay eggs

  5. Owl makes neat in the hollow of a tree or a wall
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

No, birds do not have heavy and solid bones instead they have light and hollow bones. So this is a wrong statement.

Multiple choice

Which of the following help a bird to fly in the air?

  1. Strong claws

  2. Sharp beaks

  3. Light bones

  4. Crown

  5. Webbed foot
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Yes, birds bone are hollow bones and that  why they are very light in weight, which helps them to fly in the air. This is a right answer.

Multiple choice

Sinus venosus is a characteristic of

  1. reptiles and birds

  2. fishes, amphibians and reptiles

  3. birds only

  4. birds and mammals
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

 Sinus venosus is a characteristic of fishes, amphibians and reptiles.

Multiple choice

The phage ghost refers to ______.

  1. virion protein coat

  2. virion nucleic acid

  3. lysogenic viral particle

  4. lytic viral particle

  5. viral protein coat
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

A phage virion that lacks nucleic acid can be removed via. osmotic shock. Such modified phages are described as ghosts.