1. Which of the following is true for Arthropoda?
a) Development may be direct or indirect.
b) Open circulatory system.
c) Excretion takes place by green gland, coxal gland and Malpighian tubules.
d) All of these
Explanation: All of these
2. Select from the following the total number of useful insects.
Apis, Bombyx, Laccifer, Anopheles, Culex, Aedes, Prawn, Scorpion, Locust, Limulus.
a) 3
b) 4
c) 6
d) 5
Explanation: 3
3. Select from the following the total number of organism that belongs to phylum arthropoda.
Locust, Butterfly, Scorpion, Prawn, Salpa, doliolums, Pila, Chiton, Antedon, Hyla, Myxine,
Locust, Loligo, Culex, Cucumaria, Cuttle fish.
a) 4
b) 6
c) 8
d) 12
Explanation: 6
4. Select the living fossil from the following:
a) Culex
b) Silkworm
c) Lac insect
d) Limulus
Explanation: Limulus
5. Following mosquitoes used as vector for various diseases:
a) Culex
b) Anopheles
c) Aedes
d) All of these
Explanation: All of these
6. Other name of limulus is
a) Laccifer
b) Locust
c) King crab
d) Gregarious pest
Explanation: Other name of limulus is King crab
7. Which of the following is a gregarious pest?
a) Laccifer
b) Locusta
c) King crab
d) Both (a) and (b)
Explanation: Locusta is a gregarious pest.
8. Match the following:
Column I Column II
A. Locusta – 1. Apis
B. Honey bee – 2. Locust
C. Silkworm – 3. Bombyx
D. Lac insect – 4. Laccifer
a) A–4, B–1, C–3, D–4
b) A–2, B− 1, C–4, D–3
c) A–2, B–1, C–3, D–4
d) A–4, B–3, C–1, D–4
Explanation: A–2, B–1, C–3, D–4
9. Which of the following belongs to arthropods?
a) Peripatus and crab
b) Prawn and scorpion
c) Centipede and cockroach
d) All of these
Explanation: All of these
10. Animals with soft body, bilateral symmetry, triploblastic and unsegmented, usually protected
by a shell made up of calcium carbonate belongs to phylum _____
a) Porifera
b) Echinodermata
c) Mollusca
d) Arthropoda
Explanation: Mollusca