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JUNIOR INTER ZOOLOGY

Important Questions

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Very Short Answer Type Questions (2 Marks)

1.

What is trinominal nomenclature? Give an example.

2.

What is meant by tautonymy? Give two examples.

3.

Differentiate between Protostomia and Deuterostomia.

4.

Define species richness.

5.

List out any four sacred groves in India.

6.

What are retroperitoneal organs.

7.

Distinguish between tendon and ligament.

8.

What is the strongest cartilage? In which region(s) of human body it is present?

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Define osteon.

10.

What is lymph? How it differs plasma.

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What is haematocrit value?

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What are intercalated discs? What is their significance?

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What are functions of canal system in sponges?

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What is metagenesis? Animals of which phylum exhibit it?

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What are the excretory cells of flat worms? What is their other important

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functions?

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16.

Distinguish between amphids and phasmids.

17.

What is botryoidal tissue?

18.

What are the respiratory structures of Limulus and Palamnaeus?

19.

What are antennae? What is the arthropod group without antennae?

20.

Which arthropod you have studied is called living fossil. Name its respiratory

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organs.

21.

What is function of radula? In which group of molluscs it is absent?

22.

What is Aristotle's lantern? Give an example that possesses it.

23.

Write four salient features of cyclostomes.

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24.

How do you justify the statement 'heart of fishes is a bronchial heart'.

25.

What are the golden ages of first jawed vertebrates and first amniotes?

26.

Name the four extra embryonic membranes.

27.

What are Jacobson's Organs? What is their function?

28.

What is wish bone? What are the skeletal components that form it?

29.

Distinguish between altricial and precocial hatehlings.

30.

How does mature RBC of a mammal differ from that of other vertebrates?

31.

Draw labelled diagram of T.S. of flagellum/ cilium.

32.

What is kinety?

33.

Distinguish between synchronous and metachronal movements.

34.

Distinguish between proter and opesthe.

35.

Define conjugation giving two ciliate examples.

36.

What is hyperparasite? mention the name of one hyper parasite.

37.

What do you mean by parasitic castration? Give an example.

38.

Distinguish between precystic stage and cystic stages of Entamoeba histolytica.

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A person is suffering from bowel irregularity, abdominal pain, blood and mucus
in stools. Based on these symptoms name the disease and causative organism.

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40.

Define prepatent period. What is its duration in Plasmodium vivax.

41.

Define incubation period. What is its duration in Plasmodium vivax.

42.

What is exflagellation? What are the resultant product?

43.

Describe biological control of mosquitoes.

44.

What is the route of extra intestinal migration of larva of Ascaris?

45.

What is meant by nocturnal periodicity?

46.

Define drug abuse.

47.

From which substance smack and coke are obtained?

48.

What is the difference between lymphangitis & lymphadents.

49.

Name the chitinous tubes that support the wings of cockroach.

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Which part of gut secrete peritrophic membrane in cockroach?

Why blood of Pariplaneta is called haemolymph?

Why respiratory system of cockroach is called polypneustic and holopneustic

type?

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53.

What are intima and teanidia?

54.

Distinguish between apposition and superposition images.

55.

What is paurometabolous development?

56.

Define a community.

57.

What is an ecosystem?

58.

What are circadian rhythms.

59.

What is meant by photoperiodism?

60.

What is cyclomorphosis? Explain its importance in Daphnia.

61.

Define commensalism. Give an example.

62.

Define Mutualism. Give an example.

63.

What is camouflage? What is its importance?

64.

Name the pollutants responsible for acid rains.

65.

What is meant by biomagnification?

66.

What are incinerators used in hospitals?

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Short Answer Type Questions (4 Marks)

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What is meant by classification? Explain the need for classification.

2.

Define species. Explain various aspects of species.

3.

Explain in brief about Biodiversity hotspots.

4.

Explain Haversian system.

5.

Describe Structure of a multipolar neuron.

6.

Write notes on salient features of anthozoans.

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What are the salient features of polychaetes?

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What are the chief characters of Crustaceans?

9.

Write salient features of Echinoids.

10.

Compare cartilaginous and bony fishes.

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What are the modifications that are observed in birds that help them in flight?

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What are lateral appendages on flagellae? Based on their occurrence, describe

various types of flagellae with an example for each.

13.

Describe transverse binary fission in Paramoecium.

14.

Draw labelled diagram of Euglena.

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15.

Describe life cycle of Entamoeba histolytica.

16.

Explain the pathogenecity of Wuchereria bancrofti in man.

17.

What are the adverse effects of tobacco?

18.

Distinguish between addiction and dependence.

19.

Draw labelled diagram of mouth parts of cockroach.

20.

Explain process of digestion in cockroach.

21.

Draw labelled diagram of salivary apparatus of cockroach.

22.

What are different types of excretory organs in cockroach? Describe process of

excretion in it.

23.

Draw labelled diagram of Ommatidium of cockroach.

24.

Describe summer stratification.

25.

Write notes on parasitic adaptations.

26.

What are the deleterious effects of depletion of ozone in stratosphere?

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Long Answer Type Questions (8 Marks)

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Write an essay on temperature as an ecological factor.

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Describe energy flow in ecosystem.

3.

List out major air pollutants and describe their effects on human health.

4.

Describe circulatory system of cockroach with labelled diagram(s).

5.

Describe respiratory system of cockroach with labelled diagram.

6.

Describe digestive system of cockroach with a labelled diagram.

7.

Describe structure and life history of Entamoeba histolytica with labelled

diagram.

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Explain life cycle of Plasmodium in man.

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Explain life cycle of Plasmodium in mosquito.

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Describe structure and life history of Ascaris.

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Describe life cycle of Wuchereria.

Writer: K. Sreeramulu

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