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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.

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Diversity in Living Organisms Questions

Multiple choice evs snakes a snake charmer's story snakes and snake charmers uses of animals

How does the male snake locate the female for breeding?

  1. By looking for her trail marks

  2. By sight

  3. By smell

  4. By hearing her movements
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The slippery female snake will discharge a pheromone noticeable all around that creates a unique fragrance that starts wind mating season. Male snakes from all over will smell the fragrance and will endeavor to mate with the female.

So, the correct option is 'By smell'.

Multiple choice evs snakes a snake charmer's story snakes and snake charmers uses of animals

How do snakes eat?

  1. Chew their food

  2. Swallow the whole food

  3. They first digest and then swallow their food

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

  • Snakes are carnivorous. Snakes do not have the right kind of teeth to chew their food so they eat their catch whole. Their jaw is structured in such a way that it allows the mouth to open wider than their own body in order to swallow their prey whole.

So, the correct option is 'Swell their whole food'.

Multiple choice evs snakes a snake charmer's story snakes and snake charmers uses of animals

Snake possess external ear.

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
Snakes have no visible ear. They have vestiges of the apparatus for hearing inside their heads, and that setup is attached to their jaw bones, so they feel vibrations very well and may hear low-frequency airborne sounds.
Multiple choice evs snakes a snake charmer's story snakes and snake charmers uses of animals

The scaly skin of snakes 

  1. Protects them from drying.

  2. Scares human beings.

  3. Makes them beautiful.

  4. All of the above.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The scaly skin of snakes plays a lot of different functions. Snakes are food for animals like eagles, hawks or foxes and to protect themselves from these animals, snakes have scales. These scales are thick and prickly, which makes it difficult for animals to bite or injure them. Other than protection from animals, scales also protect snakes from harmful sun rays and decreases water loss. Hence, scales protect snakes from dying due to multiple reasons.

Multiple choice botany living world of animals oviparous and viviparous number and shape of cells unicellular and multicellular organisms diversity and classification in animals

The organism made up of only a single cell is known as 

  1. Unicellular

  2. Acellular

  3. Multicellular

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The cell is the structural unit of life. Unicellular organisms are made up of one cell that performs all the functions and thus, called as a single-celled organism.

Multiple choice biology diversity in living things and their classification oviparous and viviparous number and shape of cells unicellular and multicellular organisms

................... possess notochord, ............... do not possess notochord.

  1. Vertebrates, invertebrates

  2. Invertebrates, vertebrates

  3. Notochords, chordates

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The animals who posses a proper notochord are known as vertebrates whereas the organisms who do not have a proper notochord are known as invertebrates.

Multiple choice biology diversity in living things and their classification oviparous and viviparous number and shape of cells unicellular and multicellular organisms

.............. are those animals which have no backbone.

  1. Invertebrates

  2. Vertebrates

  3. Mammals

  4. Aves
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The vertebral column is a supportive structure derived from the notochord. It is more commonly called the backbone or the spine. Animals that do not possess or develop a vertebral column or backbone are commonly called invertebrates. They include crabs, snails, lobsters, octopuses, sea urchins, worms, etc.

So, the correct answer is 'Invertebrates'.

Multiple choice biology diversity in living things and their classification oviparous and viviparous number and shape of cells unicellular and multicellular organisms

Give the difference between vertebrates and invertebrates.

  1. Invertebrates do not have notochord vertebrates have notochord.

  2. The heart of invertebrates is present on dorsal side, while heart of vertebrate is present on ventral side.

  3. Invertebrates are less evolved animals where as chordata are highly evolved animals.

  4. All of the above.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
  • Invertebrates do not have a notochord, their heart is present on the dorsal side. They are less evolved animals, 
  • whereas vertebrates have notochords, their heart is on the ventral side and they are highly evolved animals.
Multiple choice biology diversity in living things and their classification oviparous and viviparous number and shape of cells unicellular and multicellular organisms

Vertebrates do not posses a notochordat any stage.

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Vertebrates are animals that possess a notochord, a dorsal hollow nerve cord and pharyngeal gill slits at some stage of their lives. They might possess these characteristics during the initial stages of their lives and lose them later on or they might develop these features later in their lives.

So, the correct answer  is 'False'.

Multiple choice biology diversity in living things and their classification oviparous and viviparous number and shape of cells unicellular and multicellular organisms

Differentiate between vertebrates and invertebrates.

  1. (i) Vertebrates: (a) Notochord is present, (b) True internal skeleton present.

    (ii) Invertebrates:(a) Notochord is absent, (b) No true internal skeleton present.

  2. (i) Vertebrates: (a) Notochord is absent, (b) No true internal skeleton present.

    (ii) Invertebrates: (a) Notochord is present, (b) True internal skeleton present.

  3. (i) Vertebrates: (a) Nervechord is present, (b) True internal skeleton present.

    (ii) Invertebrates:(a) Notochord is absent, (b) No true internal skeleton present.

  4. (i) Vertebrates: (a) Nervechord is present, (b) True internal skeleton present.

    (ii) Invertebrates:(a) Notochord is absent, (b) True internal skeleton present.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
  • Vertebrates have a backbone with a spinal cord, whereas invertebrates do not.
  • The diversity is exceptionally high among the invertebrates compared to vertebrates.
  • Vertebrates are always bilaterally symmetrical, while invertebrates could show either bilateral or radial symmetry.
  • Vertebrates are usually large-bodied and move fast compared to invertebrates.
  • Vertebrates have a closed blood system, a well-developed brain, either gills or lungs for respiration, and a complex and sophisticated nervous system, whereas those are primitive in invertebrates. Therefore, it concerns that vertebrates have many specializations to extract the best out of the environment compared to invertebrates.
  • Despite all these changes, someone could draw a point that invertebrates are more adaptive due to their simplicity, whereas vertebrates do not have good adaptability in comparison because of the specialization. However, I would like to quote a popular quote to finish that in evolution specialization paralyzes and ultra specialization kills the viability of taxons.
Multiple choice biology animal world oviparous and viviparous number and shape of cells unicellular and multicellular organisms diversity and classification in animals adaptations in animals

Birds are considered oviparous

  1. They are able to fly

  2. The forelimbs are modified into wings

  3. They lay eggs

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Ovipary is the phenomenon in which an adult organisms reproduces and lays eggs which later hatch and give rise to young ones.

Since birds lay eggs they are known as oviparous.
Flight or wing modifications are not related to this phenomenon.
So the correct answer is 'They lay eggs'.

Multiple choice biology animal world oviparous and viviparous number and shape of cells unicellular and multicellular organisms diversity and classification in animals adaptations in animals

Birds and snakes are oviparous animals.

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
Oviparous are the animals which lay eggs. Snakes belong to class Reptilia and birds belongs to class Aves. They lay eggs. The eggs hatch by the warmth of the body. The yolk of the egg provides nutrition to the developing embryo.
So, the correct answer is option A.
Multiple choice biology interdependence of organism and the environment natural cycles and resources constituents of air medicinal use of microorganism

Read the following statements and select the correct option:
STATEMENT I: Nostoc and bacteria are prokaryotes.
STATEMENT II: Penicillium and Spirogyra are fungi.

  1. Only statement I is true

  2. Only statement II is true

  3. Both statements I and II are true

  4. Both statements I and III are false
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Nostoc is a cyanobacterium. Along with bacteria, Nostoc belongs to the prokaryotic organisms as they do not possess the well-defined nucleus and double membrane-bound organelles. In statement 2, Penicillium is a fungus but Spirogyra is an alga. Thus, the correct option is A.

Multiple choice biology nutrition - food supplying system site of photosynthesis chloroplast and pigments of photosynthesis pigments action spectrum and absorption spectrum spectrum of electromagnetic radiation

Match the following

a. Bacteria 1. Synthesis and storage of lipids
b. Sphaerosomes 2. Idiogram
c. Chloroplasts 3. Glycocalyx
d. Karyotype 4. Thylakoids

  1. a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2

  2. a-3, b-1, c-2, d-4

  3. a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1

  4. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4

  5. a-3, b-2, c-4, d-1.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Bacteria have glycocalyx (a-3). Sphaerosomes are involved in lipid storage (b-1). Chloroplasts contain thylakoids (c-4). Karyotype is represented by an idiogram (d-2).