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Question
CBSEENBI11025864

Digestion in Leucosolenia and other sponges is

  • only extracellular

  • only intracellular

  • first extracellular, then intracellular

  • first intracellular, then extracellular

Solution

B.

only intracellular

Digestion occurs in food vacuoles only, hence, it is  completely intracellular.

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CBSEENBI11025865

A cysticerous in pig muscles can remain alive for

  • six months

  • one year

  • six years

  • one month

Solution

C.

six years

Cysticerci remain alive for 5-6 years and are then calcified by the host (pig).

Question
CBSEENBI11025866

Tube within tube plan is exhibited by which of the following groups of animals?

  • Arthropods

  • Cephalochordates

  • Annelids

  • Mollusca

Solution

C.

Annelids

Annelids have straight alimentary canal representing a tube within a tube plan. In deuterostomatic animals anus develops earlier during embryonic development from
blastopore (e.g., all chordates and echinoderm invertebrates).

Question
CBSEENBI11025867

Molluscan blood contains

  • haemoglobin

  • haemozoin

  • haemocyanin

  • All of these

Solution

C.

haemocyanin

Haemocyanin is the characteristic respiratory pigment of only Mollusca and some arthropods.

Question
CBSEENBI11025868

Moulting in snakes is done by shedding

  • comified cells

  • stratified germinativum

  • epidermis

  • dermis

Solution

A.

comified cells

Stratum comeum is keratinized layer and is shed by snakes annually.