JR ZOOLOGY 1:5 IMP QUESTIONS 2024-25

I. Very short answer type questions:

Question No-1 (Chapter-1: Diversity of Living World = 4 + 2 = 6 marks)
1. What is meant by Tautonymy? Give two examples?
2. What does ICZN stand for?
3. Distinguish between Embrology & Ethology?
4. Write full form of IUCN. In which book threatened species are enlisted?
5. Define the term Hitology. What is it otherwise called?
Question No-2 (Chapter -2: Structural Organisation in Animals = 4+2+2+2= 10. Marks)
1. What is Cephalization? How is it useful to its possessors?
2. Distinguish between a tendon and a ligament?
3. Define osteon?
4. What is the haematocrit value?
5. Distinguish between exocrine and endocrine gland with examples?
Question No-3 (Chapter -2 Structural Organisation in Animals)
1. What is lymph? How does it differ from plasma?
2. Cardiac muscle is highly resistant to fatigue?
3. What are Volkmann’s Canals? What is their role?
4. Distinguish between white matter and grey matter of CNS?
5. What are Retroperitonial Organs?
Question No – 4 (Chapter -2 Structural Organisation in Animals)
1. Mention the animals that exhibit ‘a tube-within- a-tube’ organisation for the first time? Name their body
cavity?
2. Distinguish between Holocrine and apocrine glands?
3. What is Enterocoelom? Name the Enterocoelomate phyla in the animal kingdom?
4. Distinguish between brown fat and white fat?
5. What is the strong cartilage? In which regions of the human body. Do you find it?
6. What is sesamoid bone? Give an example?
7. Define Osteon?
Question No-5 (Chapter 3 Animal Diversity – 1 {invertibrate phyla} =4+2=06 . Marks)
1. What is Aristotle’s lantern? Give one example of an animal possessing it?
2. Which arthropod, you have studied, is called a ‘living fossil’? How many pairs of gills help in the
respiration of chiton?
3. What are the respiratory structure of limulus and palamnaeus respectively?
4. What is botryoidal tissue?
5. What is the essential difference between a ‘flat worm’and a ‘round worm’with reference to the
perivisceral area of their bodies?
Question No-6 (Chapter -3 Animal Diversity –I Invertibrate phyla)
1. Distinguish between Amphids and phasmids?
2. What are the excretory cell of flatworms called? What is the other important function of these specialized
cells?
3. What are the function of canal system of sponges?
4. What are the two chief morphological ‘bodyforms’of cnidarians? What are their chief functions?
5. What do you call the locomotor structures of neries/ why is neries called a polychaete ?
Question No-7 (Chapter- 4 Animal Diversity -2 {Chordata Phylum} = 4+2= 6 Marks)
1. Distinguish between milt and spawn?
2. Name to poisonous and non –poisonous snakes found in south india?
3. Name the foyr extra embronic membranes?
4. What are jacobson ‘s organs ? What is their function?
5. What is ‘wish bone’? What are the skeletal component that form it?
Question No - 8 (Chapter -5 Locomotion and Reproduction 4+2+2=8 Marks)
1. Draw a labelled diagram of T.S of flagellum?
2. List any two differences between flagellum and cilium?
3. Draw a labelled diagram of flagellum?
4. What is kinety?
5. Distinguish between Proter and Opisthe?
Question No -9 (Chapter-6 Biology in Human Welfare =8+4+2 =14 Marks)
1. What are Schuffner’s Dots? What is their significance?
2. The eggs of Ascaris are called ‘Mammillated eggs’, Justify?
3. Elephantiasis is the terminal condition of Filariasis’. Justify?
4. From which substances ‘smack’ and cock’ are obtained?
5. What are Haemozoin granules? What is their significance?
Question No -10 (Chapter-8 Ecology and environment = 8+4+2 = 14 Marks)
1. What are circadian rhythms?
2. What is Cyclomorphosis ? Explain it importance in Daphnia?
3. Define Mutualism. Give one example?
4. What is BOD?
5. Distinguish the terms phototaxis and photokinesis?
II. Short answer type questions:
Question No-11 (Chapter -1 Diversity of Living World ) SAQ = 4 Marks
1. Explain the hierarchy of classification?
2. Define species. Explain the various aspects of species?
3. What is the evil quartet?
4. Explain ‘Rivet popper’ hypothesis?
5. Explain in brief ‘bio-diversity hot spot’?
Question No-12 (chapter -2 Structural Organization in Animals) SAQ = 4 Marks
1. Explain ‘Haversian system’?
2. Describe the three types of cartilage?
3. Describe the structure of a cardiac muscle?
4. Write short note on lymph?
5. Describe the structure of a multipolar neuron?
Question No-13 (Chapter – 3 Animal diversity – I {Invertibrate}) SAQ = 4 Marks
1. Write short note on the salient features of the Anthozoans?
2. Mention the general characters of Arachnida?
3. Compare briefly a centipede and a Milliped?
4. What are the chief characters of crustaceanss?
5. What are the salient features exhibited by polychaetes?
Question No-14 (Chapter -4 Animal diversity- II {Chordates phyla}) SAQ = 4 Marks
1. Describe the structure of the heart of frog?
2. Compare and contrast cartilaginous and bony fishes?
3. Name the four ‘hallmarks’ of chordates and explain the principal function of each of them?
4. Give three major differences between chordates and non-chordates and draw the sketch of a chordate’s
body showing those features?
5. Write eight salient features of the class Amphibia?
Question No-15 (Chapter –V Locomotion & Reproduction) SAQ = 4 Marks
1 what are lateral Appendages? Based on their presence and absence write the various types of flagella
giving at least one example for each type?
2. Give an account of pseudopodia?
3. Describe the process of longitudinal binary fission in Euglena?
4. Describe the process of transverse binary fission in Paramecium?
Question No-16 (Chapter-VI Biology in Human Welfare) SAQ = 4 Marks
1. Describe the structure of a Tropozoite of Entamoeba histolytica?
2. Describe the structure of sporozoite of plasmodium vivax?
3. Write short notes on ‘ringworm’ and its prophylaxis?
4. Prevention is better than cure’. Justify with regard to TDA abuse?
5. Explain the pathogenicity of wuchereria bancrofti in man?
Question No-17 (Chapter – VII Periplaneta Americana {cockroach}) SAQ = 4 Marks
1. Draw a neat labelled diagram of the mouth parts of cockroach?
2. Draw a neat and labelled diagram of Ommatidium?
3. Draw a neat labelled diagram of the salivery apparatus of Cockroach?
4. Describe the physiology of digestion in Cockroach?
5. Describe the process of blood circulation in periplaneta?
Question No-18 (Chapter - VIII Ecology Environment) SAQ = 4 Marks
1. What is summer stratification? Explain?
2. Explain Vant’ Hoff rule?
3. Describe ‘Green House effect’?
4. Write a note on DFC. Give its significance in a terrestrial ecosystem?
5. Distinguish between Euryhaline and Stenohaline animals?
III. Long answer type questions:
Question No-19 (Chapter –VI Biology in Human Welfare) LAQ = 8 Marks
1. Describe the life cycle of plasmodium vivax in man?
2. Explain the structure and life cycle of Entamoeba Histolytica with the help of neat labelled diagrams?
3. Describe the life cycle of plasmodium vivax in mosquito?
4. Describe the structure and life cycle of Ascaris Lumbricoides with the help of neat labelled diagram?
Question No-20 (Chapter – VII Periplaneta Americana {cockroach} =8+4=12M) LAQ = 8 Marks
1. Describe the blood circulatory system of periplaneta. Draw a neat labelled diagram of it?
2. Describe the respiratory system of cockroach with the help of a neat labelled diagram?
3. Describe the digestive system of cockroach with the help of a neat labelled diagram?
4. Describe the reproductive system of periplaneta and draw neat and labelled diagram?
Question No-21 (Chapter - VIII Ecology and Environment) LAQ = 8 Marks
1. Describe different types of food chains that exist in an ecosystem?
2. Describe lake as an ecosystem giving example for the various zones and the biotic components in it?
3. What are the causes of water pollution and suggest measures for control of water?
4. Give an account of’ flow of energy ‘in an ecosystem?

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