More Classes
5th Class
6th Class
7th Class
8th Class
9th Class
10th Class
11th Class
12th Class
NAT I
NAT II
CSS
IQ
General Knowledge
MDCAT
ECAT
GAT General
GAT Subject
Other Links
Go to Home
Online Tests
NAT II Biological Science MCQs With Answers
Question # 1
Parasexuality is a special type of genetic recombination which is showed by which group of fungi
Choose an answer
Penicillium
Imperfect fungi
Powdery mildews
Spitting fungus
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 2
The species with the same specific epithet cannot occur in the genus. If this happens, they are called
Choose an answer
Homonym
Synonym
Legitimate
Illegitimate
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 3
Cryptostegiagrandiflorais a cultivated ----------- growing in gardens.
Choose an answer
Herb
Shrub
Grass
Climber
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 4
Translocation into developing organs, i.e. Roots, tubers and reproductive organs is called;
Choose an answer
Deport
Export
Both a & b
None
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 5
In fishes, gill pouches develop into
Choose an answer
Gills
Threat & Middle ear
Eustachian tubes
Both A and B
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 6
Mushroom belongs to group of club fungi and has septate, length dikaryotic phase, which is the main phylum to which it belongs
Choose an answer
Zygomycota
Basidiomycota
Deuteromycota
Ascomycots
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 7
Seeds of members of family pharmacies are
Choose an answer
Endospermic
Exalbuminous
Both a and b
None of these
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 8
Latex produced by Cryptostegia grandiflora is a source of
Choose an answer
Fodder
Rubber
Fiber
Stuffing material
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 9
The group of enzymes that bring about non-hydrolytic addition or removal of substrate are
Choose an answer
Hydrolase
Protease
Heptase
Dehydrogenase
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 10
The other name of glycolysis is
Choose an answer
Calvin cycle
EMP pathway
Light reaction
None
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 11
Fruits of leguminoceae is
Choose an answer
Legume
Lomentum
Drupe
Both a & b
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 12
Euphorbia Milli is a
Choose an answer
Tree
Herb
Ornamental shrub
Ornamental herb
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 13
It is a duplicate specimen of holotype collected as same place and time
Choose an answer
Holotype
Isotype
Lectotype
Syntype
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 14
In ---------- stems & roots of plants increase in diameter
Choose an answer
Primary growth
Secondary growth
Permanent growth
Apical growth
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 15
Match with Lamarckism
Choose an answer
Inheritance of acquired characteristics
Long neck of giraffe is evolved gradually as cumulative product of many generations
Body parts used extensively become stronger and larger
All A, B and C
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 16
Locus is
Choose an answer
Segment of chromosome
Position of a gene on the chromosome
Genes present on one chromatid
Collection of genes at specific part of chromosome
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 17
He distinguished gymnosperms as naked seeded are enclosed in vessels
Choose an answer
Rebert Brown
Linneous
Armen Takhtajan
Arthur
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 18
In ------------- long flowering stalk develops
Choose an answer
Parthenocarpy
Elongation
Vernalizaion
Bolting
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 19
Apple is a member of family
Choose an answer
Rasaceae
Ranunculaceae
Labiaceae
Malvaceae
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 20
Green color blindness is called
Choose an answer
Parotanopia
Denteranopia
Tritanopia
Non of these
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 21
The oxidative change of water in photo-chemical excitation occurs in a process
Choose an answer
Photo-reaction
Phosphorylation
Photo-oxidation
None
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 22
Family ------------ incluldes 100 genera and 850 species
Choose an answer
Compositeae
Crucifereae
Labiateae
Cucurbitaceae
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 23
Mycorrhiza is an association between roots of plants growing in acid soil and certain fungi to which relation it belongs
Choose an answer
Symbiosis
Commensalism
Grazing
Grazers
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 24
Males suffering from Jacobs's syndrome have sex chromosomes
Choose an answer
XXX
XO
XXY
XYY
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 25
Rusts belong to the group of club fungi they are called so because
Choose an answer
Orange-yellow colored disease spots on their host surface
Dusty spore masses that resemble soot
Rust have fruiting bodies
Puccinia species
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 26
A succulent berry with hard rind is commonly known as
Choose an answer
Drupe
Pome
Pepo
None
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 27
Fruits of labiateae is
Choose an answer
Pome
Pappus
Drupe
Carcerulus
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 28
The body of fungus is called as
Choose an answer
Mycelium
Hyphae
Septate hyphae
Coenocytic
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 29
Genera with common characteristics are grouped into a more inclusive group
Choose an answer
Species
Family
Genus
Sub-species
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 30
It includes the plants in which perianth is absent or reduced
Choose an answer
Apocarpae
Nudiflorae
Heteromarae
Glumacae
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 31
In fungi asexual reproduction occurs by all these method except which one
Choose an answer
Spores
Conidia
Binary fission
Budding
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 32
The process in which energy migration takes place within a group of neighbouring pigments is called
Choose an answer
Reductive resonance
Deductive resonance
Inductive resonance
None
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 33
A symbiotic association between certain fungi and certain photoautotrophes either green algae or a cyanobacterium or sometimes both is termed as
Choose an answer
Mycorrhizae
Lichens
Endomycorrhizae
Ectomycorrhizae
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 34
In ecosystem an eagle may eat blue birds may eat insects, like caterpillar which feeds on green leaves this is a example of
Choose an answer
Simple food chain
Food web
Succession
Community relay
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 35
An ordered array composed of a series of inclusive levels
Choose an answer
Taxon
Systematics
Hierarchy
Monopoly
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 36
1.
----------- is the process in which plasma membrane starts pulling away from the cell wall;
Choose an answer
Incipient plasmolysis
Indirect plasmolysis
Critical Phasmolysis
None
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 37
When a species is described in one genus and later transferred to another genus, the specific epithet
Choose an answer
Homonym
Synonym
Legitimate
Illegitimate
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 38
Seed of rosaceae is
Choose an answer
Edosperm
Endosperm oily
Non endosperm
None
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 39
Major types of ecosystems, those that occupy board geographical regions are called
Choose an answer
Climax community
Biome
Planetary ecosystem
Community
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 40
Aggregates of closely related species
Choose an answer
Infra specific species
Variety
Subspecies
Genus
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 41
Of the following, which is the most recently described pseudocoelomate animal phylum?
Choose an answer
Pariapulida
Acanthocephala
Loricifera
Nematomorpha
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 42
Acanthocephalans are also known as spiny-headed worms because of their spiny
Choose an answer
True
False
none of the above
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 43
Cephalopods rely on olfactory senses for detecting prey
Choose an answer
True
False
None of above
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 44
Which of the following is true of the radula of most molluscs?
Choose an answer
It is used in reproduction
It is used in excretion
It is used in rasping food
It is used in gas exchange
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 45
A regular arrangement of microtubules called --------- underlies the plasma membrane of many protozoa
Choose an answer
Pellicle
mesosomes
peroxisomes
Both A and B are correct
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 46
A clitellum is present in the members of the class Polychaeta is
Choose an answer
Hirudinea.
Polychaeta.
Oligochaeta.
IIirudinea and Oligochaeta
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 47
The approach which makes hypothesis of geneological relationships among monophyletic groups of organisms is
Choose an answer
evolutionary systematic
Phylogenetic systematic
Numarical taxonomy
Both A and C
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 48
Tsetse files are ------------- host for Trypanosoma brucei, causing sleeping sickness to humans
Choose an answer
Intermediate
Primary host
Definitive host
Both A and C are correct
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 49
The major feature which unify aschelminths is
Choose an answer
nervous system.
muscular system.
excretory system.
pseudocoelom.
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 50
Which one of the following do not lie in phylum ciliophora?
Choose an answer
Paramyxa
Vorticella
Paramecium
Balantidium
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 51
Where would you look for a kinorhynch?
Choose an answer
a marine environment
a freshwater environment
on land that is relatively moist
on land that is relatively dry
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 52
Which one is a member of class zoomastigophorea?
Choose an answer
Trichonympha
Trypanosoma
Paramyxa
Giardia
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 53
A distinctive feature of members of the subclass Hirudinea is
Choose an answer
Parapodia.
Tentacles.
Anterior and Posterior suckers.
Palps.
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 54
Schizogony means
Choose an answer
to emit
to join
to split
None of above
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 55
A ----------- is a developmental stage of a freshwater bivalve that is parasitic on fishes
Choose an answer
veliger
Kinorhynchs.
Acanthocephalans.
Nemerteans.
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 56
Animals of phylum cnidaria are
Choose an answer
Diploblastic
Triploblastic
None of above
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 57
The arrangement of structures in fives around a radial animal is called
Choose an answer
Bilateral symmetry
Radial Symmetry
Pentaradial Symmetry
Asymmetr
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 58
The scientist who describe a system of classification that distinguished between kingdoms according to cellular organization and mode of nutrition was
Choose an answer
R. M. Kristensen
Carolus Linnaeus
Rebert II. Whittaker
None of above
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 59
Which of the following is not an external feature of a rotifer?
Choose an answer
cilia
corona
germovitellarium
foot
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 60
The absence of a shell in the aplacophora is a primitive character in the phylum Mollusca
Choose an answer
True
False
None of Above
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 61
Characteristics of the phylum Rotifera include all of the following except
Choose an answer
a well-developed cuticle
absence of protonephridia
parthenogenesis is common
triploblastic, bilateral, unsegmented, pseudocoelomate.
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 62
Polymorphism is characteristic of phylum
Choose an answer
phylum Nematoda
phylum Annelida
phylum Cnidaria
None of above
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 63
A specialized region analogous to mouth called cytopharynx is present in group
Choose an answer
Polycheate
Ctenophora
Protista
Porifera
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 64
The main propulsive structure(s) in the circulatory system of an earthworm is (are)
Choose an answer
Hearts
Dorsal and ventral blood vessels
Seminal vesicles
The typhlosole.
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 65
In Schizogony ----------- divisions takes place in mature individual
Choose an answer
Mitotic
Meiotic
Multiple mitotic
First mitotic then meiotic
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 66
The mantle of most mollusks
Choose an answer
is modified for locomotion
is used in attracting prey
secretes the shell
supports the radula
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 67
Presence of metameric segmentation
Choose an answer
Lumbricus
Daphnia
Arenicola
Both A and C are correct
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 68
Process during which aschelminths shed their cuticle is called
Choose an answer
moltin (g)
ecdysis
eutely.
both a and b are correct.
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 69
The scientific name of the common pork roundworm is
Choose an answer
Ascaris lumbricoides.
Enterobius vermicularis.
Trichinella spiralis.
Wuchereria bancrofti.
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 70
Most marine protozoa have solute concentration ------------ to that of their environment
Choose an answer
Hypertonic
Hypotonic
similar
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 71
Primary host for Fasciola hepatica is
Choose an answer
Snail
Sheep
Cattle
Both A and B are correct
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 72
The scientific name of the common pinworm is
Choose an answer
Ascaris lumbricoides.
Enterobius vermicularis
Trichinella spiralis.
Wuchereria bancrofti
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 73
Which of the following is not a common feature of aschelminth?
Choose an answer
incomplete digestive tract
a muscular pharynx
constant cell numbers (eutely)
adhesive glands
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 74
All of the following mollusc characters would be found in a member of the class Bivalvia except one. Select the exception.
Choose an answer
Visceral mass
head-foot
mantle cavity
radula
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 75
------------ depict a sequence in the origion of derived characters
Choose an answer
Cladogram
Monogram
Phylogenetic tree
None of above
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 76
Ascaris lumbricoides is commonly known as the giant intestinal roundworm of humans.
Choose an answer
True
False
none of the above
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 77
The diversity of body forms and lifestyles present in the phylum Mollusca is an excellent example of adaptive radiation
Choose an answer
True
False
None of Above
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 78
The majority of rotifers inhabit freshwaters
Choose an answer
True
False
none of the above
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 79
Most triploblastic animals have an
Choose an answer
tissue system level of organization
colonial level of organization
organ system level of organization
both A and B are correct
Previous
Skip
Next
Question # 80
Arenicola is an example of class
Choose an answer
Oligocheata
Polycheata
Hirudinea
None of above
Previous
Skip
Next
Back