NEET Biology Chapter 3 Diversity In Living Organisms Multiple Choice Questions

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NEET Biology Chapter 3 Diversity In Living Organisms Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1. Sponges belong to which of the following phylum?

  1. Porifera
  2. Cnidaria
  3. Ctenophora
  4. Platyhelminthes

Answer. 1. Porifera

Question 2. Corals belong to which of the following phylum?

  1. Porifera
  2. Cnidaria
  3. Ctenophora
  4. Platyhelminthes

Answer. 2. Cnidaria

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Question 3. In which of the phylum, two tentacles and eight longitudinal rows of ciliary comb plates for locomotion are there?

  1. Porifera
  2. Cnidaria
  3. Ctenophora
  4. Platyhelminthes

Answer. 3. Ctenophora

Question 4. Flatworms are included in which of the following phylum?

  1. Porifera
  2. Cnidaria
  3. Ctenophora
  4. Platyhelminthes

Answer. 4. Platyhelminthes

Question 5. Which phylum of animals is also called flatworms?

  1. Porifera
  2. Coelenterata
  3. Platyhelminthes
  4. Nematoda

Answer. 3. Platyhelminthes

Question 6. What does arthropod means?

  1. Bony legs
  2. Cartilaginous legs
  3. Largest legs
  4. Jointed legs

Answer. 4. Jointed legs

Question 7. What is not poisoning among these?

  1. Scorpion
  2. Centipede
  3. Spider
  4. Crab

Answer. 4. Crab

Question 8. The excretory system in annelids consist of tubes called

  1. flame cells
  2. metanephridia
  3. nephridia
  4. protonephridia

Answer. 3. nephridia

Question 9. In which organism flame cells form the excretory system?

  1. Flatworms
  2. Earthworms
  3. Insects
  4. Crabs

Answer. 1. Flatworms

Question 10. Which of the following are found filamentous?

  1. Spirogyra
  2. Euglena
  3. Chlamydomonas
  4. Amoeba

Answer. 1. Spirogyra

Question 11. Find out the incorrect statement from the following.

  1. Protista includes unicellular eukaryotic organisms.
  2. Whittaker considered cell structure, mode and source of nutrition for classifying the organisms in five kingdoms.
  3. Both Monera and Protista may be autotrophic and heterotrophic.
  4. Monerans have well-defined nucleus.

Answer. 4. Monerans have well-defined nucleus.

Question 12. Which among the following has specialized tissue for conduction of water?

(1) Thallophyta

(2) Bryophyta

(3) Pteridophyta

(4) Gymnosperms

  1. (1) and (2)
  2. (2) and (3)
  3. (3) and (4)
  4. (1) and (4)

Answer. 3. (3) and (4)

Question 13. Which among the following produce seeds?

  1. Thallophyta
  2. Bryophyta
  3. Pteridophyta
  4. Gymnosperms

Answer. 4. Gymnosperms

Question 14. Which one of the following is a true fish?

  1. Jellyfish
  2. Starfish
  3. Dogfish
  4. Silverfish

Answer. 3. Dogfish

Question 15. Which among the following is exclusively marine?

  1. Porifera
  2. Echinodermata
  3. Mollusca
  4. Pisces

Answer. 2. Echinodermata

Question 16. Which among the following have open circulatory system?

(1) Arthropoda

(2) Mollusca

(3) Annelida

(4) Coelenterata

  1. (1) and (2)
  2. (3) and (4)
  3. (1) and (3)
  4. (2) and (4)

Answer. 1. (1) and (2)

Question 17. In which group of animals, coelom is filled with blood?

  1. Arthropoda
  2. Annelida
  3. Nematoda
  4. Echinodermata

Answer. 1. Arthropoda

Question 18. Elephantiasis is caused by

  1. Wuchereria
  2. Pinworm
  3. Planarians
  4. Liver flukes

Answer. 1. Wuchereria

Question 19. Which one is the most striking or common character of the vertebrates?

  1. Presence of notochord
  2. Presence of triploblastic condition
  3. Presence of gill pouches
  4. Presence of coelom

Answer. 1. Presence of notochord

Question 20. Which among the following have scales?

(1) Amphibians

(2) Pisces

(3) Reptiles

(4) Mammals

  1. (1) and (3)
  2. (3) and (4)
  3. (2) and (3)
  4. (1) and (2)

Answer. 3. (2) and (3)

Question 21. Find out the false statement from the following.

  1. Aves are warm-blooded, egg-laying, and have four-chambered hearts.
  2. Aves have a feather-covered body, forelimbs are modified as wing and breathe through lungs.
  3. Most of the mammals are viviparous.
  4. Fishes, amphibians and reptiles are oviparous.

Answer. 4. Fishes, amphibians and reptiles are oviparous.

Question 22. Pteridophyta do not have

  1. Root
  2. Stem
  3. Flowers
  4. Leaves

Answer. 3. Flowers

Question 23. Identify a member of Porifera from the following.

  1. Spongilla
  2. Euglena
  3. Penicillium
  4. Hydra

Answer. 1. Spongilla

Question 24. Which of the following is not an aquatic animal?

  1. Hydra
  2. Jelly fish
  3. Corals
  4. Filaria

Answer. 4. Filaria

Question 25. Amphibians do not have which of the following?

  1. Three-chambered heart
  2. Gills or lungs
  3. Scales
  4. Mucus glands

Answer. 3. Scales

Question 26. Organisms without nucleus and cell organelles belong to

(1) Fungi

(2) Protista

(3) Cyanobacteria

(4) Archaebacteria

  1. (1) and (2)
  2. (3) and (4)
  3. (1) and (4)
  4. (2) and (3)

Answer. 2. (3) and (4)

Question 27. Which of the following is not a criterion for the classification of living organisms?

  1. Body design of the organism.
  2. Ability to produce one’s own food.
  3. Membrane-bound nucleus and cell organelles.
  4. Height of the plant.

Answer. 4. Height of the plant.

Question 28. Which of the following features is not a characteristic of Protochordata?

  1. Presence of notochord.
  2. Bilateral symmetry and coelom.
  3. Jointed legs.
  4. Presence of circulatory system.

Answer. 3. Jointed legs.

Question 29. Which of the following are locomotory organs of Echinodermata?

  1. Tube feet
  2. Muscular feet
  3. Jointed legs
  4. Parapodia

Answer. 1. Tube feet

Question 30. Corals are

  1. Poriferans attached to some solid support.
  2. Cnidarians are solitary living.
  3. Poriferans are present at the sea bed.
  4. Cnidarians that live in colonies.

Answer. 4. Cnidarians that live in colonies.

Question 31. Who introduced the system of scientific nomenclature of organisms?

  1. Robert Whittaker
  2. Carolus Linnaeus
  3. Robert Hooke
  4. Ernst Haeckel

Answer. 2. Carolus Linnaeus

Question 32. Two-chambered heart occurs in which of the following animals?

  1. Crocodiles
  2. Fish
  3. Aves
  4. Amphibians

Answer. 2. Fish

Question 33. The skeleton is made entirely of cartilage in which of the following animals?

  1. Sharks
  2. Tuna
  3. Rohu
  4. None of these

Answer. 1. Sharks

Question 34. Which one of the following is not an annelid?

  1. Nereis
  2. Earthworm
  3. Leech
  4. Urchins

Answer. 4. Urchins

Question 35. The book Systema Naturae was written by

  1. Linnaeus
  2. Haeckel
  3. Whittaker
  4. Robert Brown

Answer. 1. Linnaeus

Question 36. Carl von Linnaeus was involved with which branch of science?

  1. Morphology
  2. Taxonomy
  3. Physiology
  4. Medicine

Answer. 2. Taxonomy

Question 37. Real organs are absent in which of the following?

  1. Mollusca
  2. Coelenterata
  3. Arthropoda
  4. Echinodermata

Answer. 2. Coelenterata

Question 38. Hard calcium carbonate structures are used as skeletons by which of the following?

  1. Echinodermata
  2. Protochordate
  3. Arthropoda
  4. Nematoda

Answer. 1. Echinodermata

Question 39. Differentiation in segmental fashion occurs in which of the following?

  1. Leech
  2. Starfish
  3. Snails
  4. Ascaris

Answer. 1. Leech

Question 40. In a taxonomic hierarchy, family comes between which of the following?

  1. Class and Order
  2. Order and Genus
  3. Genus and Species
  4. Division and Class

Answer. 2. Order and Genus

Question 41. The five-kingdom classification was given by

  1. Morgan
  2. R. Whittaker
  3. Linnaeus
  4. Haeckel

Answer. 2. R. Whittaker

Question 42. A well-defined nucleus is absent in

  1. blue-green algae
  2. diatoms
  3. algae
  4. yeast

Answer. 1. blue-green algae

Question 43. The book ‘Origin of Species’ was written by

  1. Linnaeus
  2. Darwin
  3. Hackel
  4. Whittaker

Answer. 2. Darwin

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