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Q1) Meena and Han observed an animal in their garden. Hari called it an insect while Meena said it was an
earthworm. Choose the character from the owing which confirms that it is an insect.

(A) Bilateral symmetrical body
(B) Body with jointed legs
(C) Cylindrical body
(D) Body with little segmentation
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Q2) Choose the option that best describes the characteristics of the kingdom to which the mushroom belongs:

(A) Unicellular prokaryotic organisms
(B) Saprophytic, eukaryotic, multicellular organisms
(C) Unicellular eukaryotic organisms
(D) Autotrophic eukaryotic organisms
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Q3) The ‘Origin of Species’ is written by

(A) Linnaeus
(B) Darwin
(C) Hackel
(D) Whittaker
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Q4) Well defined nucleus is absent in

(A) blue green algae
(B) diatoms
(C) algae
(D) yeast
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Q5) Which of the following statement is incorrect?

(A) Aves are warm blooded, egg laying and have four four-chambered heart.
(B) Aves have feather covered body, fore limbs are modified as wing and breathe through lungs.
(C) Most of the mammals are viviparous.
(D) Fishes, amphibians and reptiles are oviparous.
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Q6) Can you choose the correct name for these locomotory organelles?

(A) Villi
(B) Cilia
(C) Oral groove
(D) Cytopyge
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Q7) Find out the false statement.

(A) Aves are warm-blooded, egg laying and have four-chambered heart.
(B) Aves have feather covered body, forelimbs are modified as wing and breathe through lungs.
(C) Most of the mammals are viviparous.
(D) Fishes, amphibians and reptiles are oviparous.
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Q8) Pteridophyta do not have

(A) root
(B) stem
(C) flowers
(D) leaves
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Q9) Identify a member of porifera

(A) Spongilla
(B) Euglena
(C) Penicillium
(D) Hydra
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Q10) Which is not an aquatic animal?

(A) Hydra
(B) Jelly fish
(C) Corals
(D) Filaria
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Q11) Amphibians do not have the following

(A) Three-chambered heart
(B) Gills of lungs
(C) Scales
(D) Mucus glands
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Q12) Which of the following is not a criterion for classification of living organisms?

(A) Body design of the organism
(B) Ability to produce one’s own food
(C) Membrane bound nucleus and cell organelles
(D) Height of the plant
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Q13) The feature that is not a characteristic of protochordata?

(A) Presence of notochord
(B) Bilateral symmetry and coelom
(C) Jointed legs
(D) Presence of circulatory system
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Q14) The locomotory organs of Echinodermata are

(A) tube feet
(B) muscular feet
(C) jointed legs
(D) parapodia
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Q15) Corals are

(A) Poriferans attached to some solid support
(B) Cnidarians, that are solitary living
(C) Poriferans present at the sea bed
(D) Cnidarians that live in colonies
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Q16) The various species of organisms are grouped together on the basis of similarities and dissimilarities, which is known as the classification. It helps in an easy study of the organisms. Among the following which is not an advantage of classification of organisms?

(A) It helps to understand the interrelationship among the different groups of organisms.
(B) It helps to study the geographical distribution of the plants and animals.
(C) It helps to study the nuclear structure of the organisms.
(D) It depicts before us a picture of all the life forms at a glance.
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Q17) Who introduced the sytem of scientific nomenclature of organisms?

(A) Robert Whittaker
(B) Carolus Linnaeus
(C) Robert Hooke
(D) Ernst Haeckel
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Q18) Two chambered heart occurs in

(A) crocodiles
(B) fish
(C) aves
(D) amphibians
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Q19) Skeleton is made entirely of cartilage in

(A) Sharks
(B) Tuna
(C) Rohu
(D) None of these
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Q20) One of the following is not an Annelid?

(A) Nereis
(B) Earthworm
(C) Leech
(D) Urchins
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Q21) Karl Von Linne was involved with which branch of science?

(A) Morphology
(B) Taxonomy
(C) Physiology
(D) Medicine
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Q22) Real organs are absent in

(A) Mollusca
(B) Coelenterata
(C) Arthropoda
(D) Echinodermata
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Q23) Hard calcium carbonate structures are used as skeleton by

(A) Echinodermata
(B) Protochordata
(C) Arthropoda
(D) Nematoda
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Q24) Differentiation in segmental fashion occurs in

(A) Leech
(B) Starfish
(C) Snails
(D) Ascaris
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Q25) In taxonomic hierarchy family comes between

(A) Class and Order
(B) Order and Genus
(C) Genus and Species
(D) Division and Class
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Q26) ______ Kingdom classification has given by

(A) Morgan
(B) R. Whittaker
(C) Linnaeus
(D) Haeckel
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Q27) Which of the following statement is incorrect?

(A) Aves are warm blooded, egg laying and have four four-chambered heart.
(B) Aves have feather covered body, fore limbs are modified as wing and breathe through lungs.
(C) Most of the mammals are viviparous.
(D) Fishes, amphibians and reptiles are oviparous.
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Subjects (9th Class)

Chemistry and Biology

English - Beehive Poems

English - Beehive Prose

English - Supplementary Reader Moments

Geography Social Science

Hindi Kritika

Hindi Kshitij

Hindi Sanchayan

Hindi Sparsh

Math

Physics

Social Science

Social Science Civics

Social Science Economics

Social Science History

Chapters (Chemistry and Biology)

Matter in Our Surroundings

Is Matter Around Us Pure

Atoms and Molecules

Structure of the Atom

The Fundamental Unit of Life

Tissues

Diversity in Living Organisms

Why Do We Fall ill

Natural Resources

Improvement in Food Resources