Solution of Chapter 4. Animal Kingdom (Biology - Exemplar Book)

In some animal groups, the body is found divided into compartments with serial repetition of at least some organs. This characteristic feature is called

Given below are types of cells present in some animals. Which of the following cells can differentiate to perform different functions?

Which one of the following sets of animals share a four chambered heart?

Which of the following pairs of animals has non glandular skin

Birds and mammals share one of the following characteristics as a common feature.

Which one of the following sets of animals belong to a single taxonomic group?

Which one of the following statements is incorrect?

Which one of the following statements is incorrect?

Which one of the following is oviparous?

Which one of the following is a non-poisonous snake?

Match the following list of animals with their level of organisation. Division of Labour Animal Column I Column II

Choose the correct match showing division of labour with animal example.

Body cavity is the cavity present between body wall and gut wall. In some animals the body cavity is not lined by mesoderm. Such animals are called

Match the column A with column B and choose the correct option

Identify the phylum in which adults exhibit radial symmetry and larva exhibit bilateral symmetry.

What is the importance of pneumatic bones and air sacs in Aves?

What is metagenesis? Mention an example which exhibits this phenomenon.

What is the role of feathers?

Which group of chordates possess sucking and circular mouth without jaws?

Give one example each for an animal possessing placoid scales and that with cycloid scales.

Mention two modifications in reptiles required for terrestrial mode of life.

Mention one example each for animals with chitinous exoskeleton and those covered by a calcareous shell.

What is the role of radula in molluscs?

Name the animal, which exhibits the phenomenon of bioluminescence. Mention the phylum to which it belongs.

Write one example each of the following in the space provided.

a. Cold blooded animal ________________________

b. Warm blooded animal ________________________

c. Animal possessing dry and cornified skin _______________

d. Dioecious animal _____________________

Differentiate between a diploblastic and a triploblastic animal.

Give an example of the following

a. Round worm

b. Fish possessing poison sting

c. A limbless reptile/ amphibian

d. An oviparous mammal

Provide appropriate technical term in the space provided.

a. Blood-filled cavity in arthropods __________________________.

b. Free-floating form of cnidaria _____________________________.

c. Stinging organ of jelly fishes ______________________________.

d. Lateral appendages in aquatic annelids ___________________.

Match the following:

Differentiate between:

a. Open circulatory system and closed circulatory system

b. Oviparous and viviparous characteristic

c. Direct development and Indirect development

Sort out the animals on the basis of their symmetry (radial or bilateral) coelenterates, ctenophores, annelids, arthropods, and echinoderms.

There has been an increase in the number of chambers in heart during evolution of vertebrates. Give the names of the class of vertebrates having two, three or four-chambered heart.

Fill up the blank spaces appropriately

Match the following

Endoparasites are found inside the host body. Mention the special structure, possessed by these and which enables them to survive in those conditions.

Match the following and write correct choice in space provided

a. _____, b. ______, c. _____, d. ___, e. _____, f. ____,

Differentiate between:

a. Open and closed circulatory system

b. Oviparity and viviparity

c. Direct and indirect development

d. Acoelomate and pseudocoelomate

e. Notochord and nerve cord

f. Polyp and medusa

Give the characteristic features of the following citing one example of each

a. Chondrichthyes and ostichthyes

b. Urochordata and cephalochordate

Mention two similarities between

a. Aves and mammals

b. A frog and crocodile

c. A turtle and pila

Name

a. A limbless animal

b. A cold blooded animal

c. A warm blooded animal

d. An animal possessing dry and cornified skin

e. An animal having canal system and spicules

f. An animal with cnidoblasts

Give an example for each of the following

a. A viviparous animal

b. A fish possessing a poison sting

c. A fish possessing an electric organ

d. An organ, which regulates buoyancy

e. Animal, which exhibits alternation of generation

f. Oviparous animal with mammary gland

Excretory organs of different animals are given below. Choose correctly and write in the space provided.

a. ___________, b. __________, c. ____________ d. ___________, e. ___________, f. ________,

Give three major differences between chordates and non-chordates and draw a schematic sketch of a chordate showing those features.

What is the relationship between germinal layers and the formation of body cavity in case of coelomate, acoelomates and pseudocoelomates?

Comment upon the habitats and external features of animals belonging to class, amphibia and reptilia.

Mammals are most adapted among the vertebrates. Elaborate.