Free Kingdom Animalia MCQs with Answers

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Animals are multicellular, heterotrophic eukaryotes whose cells lack cell walls and chloroplasts, with specialised tissues in most groups. Coverage includes body symmetry, tissue layers, coelom, segmentation and levels of organisation, plus major phyla such as Porifera, Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes, Annelida, Arthropoda, Mollusca and Chordata.

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  • A. Desert-snake
  • B. Coelenterate
  • C. A big-reptile
  • D. Black-forest monkey

Explanation: The Portuguese-man-of-war is a coelenterate, a marine invertebrate belonging to a group that includes jellyfish and sea anemones.

Correct answer: Coelenterate
  • A. One ventricle, two atria
  • B. Two ventricles, one atrium
  • C. One ventricle, one atrium
  • D. One ventricle, one atrium, one sinus venosus

Explanation: Amphibians typically have a heart with three chambers, which includes one ventricle and two atria.

Correct answer: One ventricle, two atria
  • A. Ornithology
  • B. Ichthyology
  • C. Herpetology
  • D. Serpetology

Explanation: The correct answer is Ichthyology, which is the scientific study of fishes, including their biology, classification, and conservation.

Correct answer: Ichthyology
  • A. Bipinnaria larva
  • B. Trochophore larva
  • C. Glochidium larva
  • D. Instar larva

Explanation: Tornaria larva resembles with Bipinnaria larva. Because Tornaria larva of hemichordates and Bipinnaria of Echinodermata are very similar…

Correct answer: Bipinnaria larva
  • A. Myxine (Hagfish)
  • B. Skates
  • C. Sharks
  • D. Teleost (Bony Fishes)

Explanation: Marine teleosts are hypoosmotic to seawater, so they face osmotic loss of water and diffusional gain of NaCl across the gill.

Correct answer: Teleost (Bony Fishes)
  • A. Class cyclostomata
  • B. Class osteichthyes
  • C. Class chondricthyes
  • D. Ceplialochordate

Explanation: Placoid scales are a unique type of scales that are present in cartilaginous fishes like sharks and rays.

Correct answer: Class chondricthyes
  • A. Crocodile
  • B. Frog
  • C. Tiger
  • D. Pigeon

Explanation: In the case of a pigeon, the gizzard is the part of their digestive system that helps with crushing and grinding food.

Correct answer: Pigeon
  • A. Cattle
  • B. Tumefaciens
  • C. Human
  • D. Termite

Explanation: Trichonympha is a tiny organism that lives inside the digestive tract of termites.

Correct answer: Termite
  • A. Habituation
  • B. Imprinting
  • C. Operant learning
  • D. Insight learning

Explanation: Imprinting is a behavior in which a young animal forms an attachment to another organism or object during a critical period early in life.

Correct answer: Imprinting
  • A. Cartilaginous fishes
  • B. Bony fishes
  • C. Cyclostomes
  • D. Both (A) & (B)

Explanation: Hagfish, also known as cyclostomes, are a type of jawless fish. They have a unique anatomy and behavior compared to cartilaginous fishes…

Correct answer: Cyclostomes
  • A. Annelida
  • B. Arthropoda
  • C. Chordata
  • D. Coelenterata

Explanation: The largest phylum of animals is the phylum Arthropoda. It includes insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other joint-legged organisms.

Correct answer: Arthropoda
  • A. cellulose
  • B. chitin
  • C. murein
  • D. hemi-cellulose

Explanation: Option B is correct. Chitin is found in the exoskeleton of crabs. Chitin is a tough, fibrous material that is made up of long chains of…

Correct answer: chitin