1. Select the incorrect matching:
a) Chelone – Turtle
b) Testudo – Tortoise
c) Chameleon – Tree lizard
d) Calotes – Wall lizard
Explanation: "Calotes – Wall lizard". This is incorrect.
2. Select the incorrect matching:
a) Naja – Cobra
b) Krait – Bangarus
c) Vipera – Viper
d) Hemidactylus – Garden lizard
Explanation: "Hemidactylus – Garden lizard". This is incorrect.
3. Select the total number of lizards from the following:
Chelone, calotes, chameleon, crocodylus, hemidactylus, columba, neophron
a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) 5
Explanation: 3
4.Which of the following is a poisonous snake?
a) Cobra
b) Krait
c) Viper
d) None of these
Explanation: None of these
5. Limbless reptile is
a) Chameleon
b) Crocodile
c) Chelone
d) Snake
Explanation: Limbless reptile is Snake.
6. In birds
The forelimbs are modified into _(1)_
Jaw is modified into _(2)_
Bones are _(3)_
Heart is _(4)_
Fill in the blanks correctly:
a) Wings, beak, solid, 3 chambered
b) Wings, beak, pneumatic, 4 chambered
c) Wings, beak, pneumatic, 3 chambered
d) Wings, beak, solid, incompletely 4 chambered
Explanation: Wings, beak, pneumatic, 4 chambered
7.The first vertebrate which are warm-blooded
a) Reptilia
b) Amphibian
c) Birds
d) Mammals
Explanation: Birds
8. The aves have additional chamber in digestive tract and of which ____ is for food storage and
____ for food grinding.
a) crop, gizzard
b) gizzard, crop
c) crop, pharynx
d) pharynx, gizzard
Explanation: The aves have additional chamber in digestive tract and of which crop is for food storage and gizzard for food grinding.
9. All are flying birds from the following except
a) Corvus
b) Columba
c) Psittacula
d) Aptenodytes
Explanation: Aptenodytes
10. Pneumatic bones are present in
a) Corvus
b) Neophron (vulture)
c) Pavo (peacock)
d) All of these
Explanation: All of these