GENERAL SCIENCE TEST PAPER

GENERAL SCIENCE TEST PAPER

1. Maximum diversity is found in which phylum

a) Chordata

b) Arthropoda

c) Protozoa

d) Annelida

 

2. Animals of which group are not fresh water

a) Crustacean

b) Insecta

c) Echinodermata

d) Sponge

 

3. Who is/are known as 'Father of Taxonomy'?

a) C. Darwin

b) Lamarck

c) Carolus Linnaeus

d) Bentham and Hooker

 

4. Which of the following is an unmatching group

a) Cockroach, king crab, spider, silver fish

b) Whale, bat, seal other

c) Cray fish, cuttle fish, saw fish, hag fish      

d) Satrfish, sea urchin, sea cucumber, sea lily

 

5. Which one group contains an hermaphrodite animals

a) Ascaris, hydra, pheretima              

b) Hydra, homo sapiens, hirudinaria

c) Fasciola, hydra, palaemon              

d) Hirudinaria, pheretima, faenia

 

6. In which book has "binomial nomenclature" been used for the first time

a) Histoire naturelle                b) Systema naturae

c) Historia naturalis  d) Historia plantarum

 

7. In humans, schizont stage of Plasmodium is found in

a) Liver cells only

b) Liver, spleen and blood cells

c) RBCs and liver cells

d) RBCs only

 

8. Euglen, belongs to

a) Flagellata               

b) Ciliata

c) Sporozoa

d) None of these

 

9. Sporogony of malaria parasite occurs in

a) Liver of man

b) RBCs of man        

c) Stomach wall of mosquito

d) Salivary glands of mosquito

 

10. Corals belong to the phylum

a) Protozoa

b) Porifera

c) Cnideria

d) Mollusca

 

11. 'Portuguese man of war' is

a) Soldier of World War-I

b) Portuguese soldier

c) A sponge

d) A polymorphic, colonial coelenterate

 

12. The coral species which is extensively used in jewellery

a) Corollium rubram

b) Anthocodium indicum

c) Gorgonia flabellum

d) Fungia species

 

13. Wuchereria boncrofti is carried by

a) Tse-tse fly

b) Male Anopheles

c) Culex mosquito

d) Female Anopheles

 

14. The respiratory organs of arthropods are

a) Gills of branchiae               

b) Tracheae               

c) Respiratory trumets

d) All of these

 

15. Study of ants is

a) Malacology

b) Myremecology

c) Mycology

d) Myology

 

16. Vision in cockroach is

a) Monocula

b) Binocular

c) Ultrasonic

d) Mosaic

 

17. Octopus belongs to class

a) Mollusca

b) Pelecypoda

c) Arthropoda

d) Cephalopoda

 

18. Natural pearls is a

a) A molluscan secretion

b) Annelida secretion

c) An arthopoda secretion

d) An echinodermata secretion

 

19. Indian Pearl oyster is the common name of

a) Unio

b) Mytilus

c) Pecten

d) Pinctada

 

20. Animals which show viviparity include

a) Whales

b) Bony fishes

c) Turtles

d) Running birds

 

21. Which one is a poikilothermic (cold blooded) animal

a) Penguin  

b) Whale

c) Otter

d) Tortoise

 

22. Dolphins are

a) Fishes

b) Amphibians

c) Reptiles

d) Mammals

 

23. Torpedo is commonly known as

a) Sea horse

 b) Electric ray

c) Globe fish

d) Sucker fish

 

24. Tortoise are

a) Viviparous

b) Oviparous

c) Bisexual

d) Parthenogenic

 

25. Scientific name of king cobra is

a) Naja naja               

b) Bungarus coerulus            

c) Naja hunna

d) Vipera russelli

 

26. Crocodile heart is

a) Single chambered

b) 2-chambered

c) 3-chambered

d) 4-chambered

 

27. Archaeopteryx called a connecting link, carried the characters of

a) Reptile and bird

b) Reptile and mammal        

c) Fish and amphibian

d) Amphibian and reptile

 

28. Connecting link between reptiles and birds is

a) Dimetrodon

b) Dodo

c) Archaeopteryx

d) Sphenodon

 

29. Flightless bird, cassowary is found in

a) Australia

b) New Zealand

c) Indonesia

d) Mauritious

 

30. Bat can travel with

a) Eyes open

b) Eyes plugged and ears open

c) Ears plugged and eye open

d) Ears closed and eyes plugged

 

31. Which one of the following is egg-laying mammal

a) Pangolin

b) Tachygiossus

c) Porcupine

d) Bat

 

32. Duck-billed platypus (ornithorhynchus) is

a) A primitive egg laying reptile

b) An advance egg laying

c) A primitive aquatic egg laying mammal

d) An aquatic bird