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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 zoology structural organization of animals structural organization of leech phylum annelida annelida structural organization of rabbit

Which of the following is the marine leech?

  1. Sipunculus

  2. Pontobdella

  3. Hirudo

  4. Polygordius

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

Pontobdella is segmented worm under the phylum Annelida. It is a marine leech which is ectoparasite on elasmobranchs and is commonly called as 'skate sucker'.
Therefore, the correct answer is option B.

Multiple choice zoology structural organization of animals structural organization of leech phylum annelida annelida structural organization of rabbit

The characteristic feature of leech is

  1. Nephridia

  2. Coelom

  3. Botryoidal tissue and hirudin

  4. All of the above

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

Nephridia is an organ involved in the excretory system. It is the characteristic feature of leech. Their bodies are much more solid as the spaces in their coelom are dense with connective tissues. In leeches, the botryoidal tissue is composed of two different cell types. The granular botryoidal cells and flattened endothelial-like cells which contains a brown pigment and may serve an excretory function. Leeches use a combination of mucus and suction to stay attached and secrete an anticoagulant enzyme known as hirudin into the host's blood streams. 

Thus, the correct answer is option D.

Multiple choice zoology structural organization of animals structural organization of leech phylum annelida annelida structural organization of rabbit

Paddle worm amongst the following is 

  1. Arenicola

  2. Chaetopterus

  3. Sabella

  4. Amphitrite

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

Chaetopterus, commonly known as paddle worm from class Polychaeta. It is worldwide in distribution. It feeds on small organisms, true filter feeders. The body is divided into an anterior region, middle region and a posterior region. Parapodia have modified accordingly to their function. They are modified into pumping fans, sucking discs and food ball organs and asexual reproduction by transverse fission. So, the correct answer is option B.

Multiple choice zoology structural organization of animals structural organization of leech phylum annelida annelida structural organization of rabbit

Partly open type of circulatory system is found in few members of class

  1. Oligochaeta

  2. Polychaeta

  3. Archiannelida

  4. Hirudinea

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
The circulatory system is usually closed in Annelids, i.e., confined within well-developed blood vessels. However, in some Hirudinea, the circulatory system is partly open, with blood and coelomic fluid mixing directly in the sinuses of the body cavity. 
Therefore, the correct answer is option D.
Multiple choice zoology structural organization of animals structural organization of leech phylum annelida annelida structural organization of rabbit

Which of the following organism act as a connecting link between Oligochaeta and Hirudinea?

  1. Haemadipsa

  2. Acanthobdella

  3. Pontobdella

  4. Hirudo

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

Acanthobdella forms a connecting link between Oligochaeta and Hirudinea. It is mostly parasitic on fins of salmon fishes. Body comprises of thirty segments only. Its body cavity is spacious and completely divided by septa, vascular system is composed of dorsal and ventral vessel. Hence, option B is correct.

Multiple choice zoology structural organization of animals structural organization of leech phylum annelida annelida structural organization of rabbit

Which of the following is an example of leech?

  1. Hirudinaria

  2. Glossiphonia

  3. Haemadipsa

  4. All of the above

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

Hirudinaria is an Indian cattle leech. This is the fresh water species. It is cosmopolitan. It feeds on the blood of frog, animals and men. 

Glossiphonia complanata is a leech which often occurs abundantly in eastern United States and Canada. It feeds mainly on the fluid of mollusks and invertebrates. 
Haemadipsa are commonly known as jawed land leeches. These annelids are known from subtropical and tropical regions around the Indian and Pacific Ocean. These are all the different genus of leeches.
Thus, the correct answer is option D. 

Multiple choice zoology structural organization of animals structural organization of leech phylum annelida annelida structural organization of rabbit

Which one exhibits concentric tube-within- tube plan?

  1. Arthropoda

  2. Oligochaeta/Earthworm

  3. Mollusca

  4. Echinodermata

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

The tube-within-a-tube body plan refers to an organism having a digestive tract with two openings (mouth and anus), which is characteristic of annelids like earthworms.

Multiple choice zoology structural organization of animals structural organization of leech phylum annelida annelida structural organization of rabbit

The common larva of polychaeta/annelida is

  1. Trochophore

  2. Actinotrocha

  3. Glochidium

  4. Tornaria

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

Trochophore, also called trochosphere, small, translucent, free-swimming larva characteristic of marine annelids and most groups of mollusks. Trochophores are spherical or pear-shaped and are girdled by a ring of cilia (minute hairlike structures), the prototroch, that enables them to swim.  Each segment bears a pair of paddle-like and highly vascularized parapodia, which are used for movement and, in many species, act as the worm's primary respiratory surfaces. Bundles of bristles, called setae, the project from the parapodia.

So the correct answer is 'Trochophore'.

Multiple choice physics transfer of heat applications of convection convection thermal energy transfers

Birds glide effortlessly in the air with the help of

  1. Conduction of heat in the air

  2. Radiation of light through the atmosphere

  3. Convection currents of air

  4. More sugar

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

When birds flap their wings the density of the air decreases nearby since the air particles move apart. This less dense air rises and helps the bird to keep flying. The denser air replaces this space. This movement is known as convection current of air. 

Multiple choice zoology evolution evidences for evolution - taxonomy, molecular biology and cytology evidences of evolution evidences of biological evolution

Microscopic colloidal droplets synthesised abiotically in the ancient seas are called as__________.

  1. Coacervates

  2. Precells

  3. Protobionts

  4. Eobionts

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

A-  Coacervate can be defined as an aggregate of macromolecules such as proteins, lipids, nucleic acid often surrounded by the cell membranes and forms a stable colloid with properties that resemble living matter. According to Russian biochemist Aleksandr Oparin in the hot primitive seas, organic molecules would gather in small drops, similar to the actual cells. These small drops bunddled up in water molecules are called “coacervates”. 

Multiple choice zoology evolution evidences for evolution - taxonomy, molecular biology and cytology evidences of evolution evidences of biological evolution

Forelimbs of mammals have a common basic structure or pattern but are different in their usage/function in different animals. They can be called 

  1. Homologous organs

  2. Analogous organs

  3. Vestigial organs

  4. Rudimentary organs

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
Homology indicates common ancestry. Homologous organs have similar structure but different functions. Example: Forelimbs of bat, cheetah, whales and human have similar structure but different functions.
Analogy indicates diverse ancestry. Analogous organs have different structure but perform similar functions. Example: Wings of butterfly and birds are different in structure but perform similar function.
Multiple choice component of the cell cell and cell organelles cell organelles cell: the unit of life biology cell as structural and functional unit basics of cell

Mitochondria and chloroplasts are believed to be bacterial endosymbionts of cells because

  1. They have their own nucleic acids.

  2. Their membranes resemble those of cyanobacteria.

  3. They do arise de novo.

  4. All of the above.

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

Mitochondria and Chloroplasts are the only cell organelles other than nucleus coated with double membrane. They have their own DNA and protein synthesizing machinery as well. One explanation for a cell organelle to have its own DNA is that these organelles were separate organisms. The chloroplast was an autotrophic cyanobacteria and the mitochondria was a separate heterotrophic organism which later on became lodged into a eukaryotic cell as endosymbionts.