Identify the incorrectly matched pair:
1. Echinodermata Water vascular system
2. Hemichordata Stomochord
3. Cyclostomata Cartilaginous jaw
4. Cephalochordata Notochord persistent throughout life

Subtopic:  General Introduction: Vertebrates & Agnatha | Class Cyclostomata |
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A complete digestive system is present in the members of all the following phyla of Animal Kingdom except:
I: Platyhelminthes
II: Mollusca
III: Annelida
 
1. Only I 2. Only II
3. Only II and III 4. I, II, and III
Subtopic:  Basis of Classification |
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The collared flagellated cell shown in the given figure is called as a:
1. Choanocyte and helps sponges in movement of water through their canal system
2. Choanocyte and helps sponges in reproducing asexually under favourable conditions
3. Cnidocyte and helps sponges in catching their prey by paralyzing them
4. Colloblast and helps sponges in sticking to a surface
Subtopic:  Phylum Porifera |
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In Ctenophora:
a: body bears eight external rows of ciliated comb plates, which help in locomotion.
b: reproduction takes place only by asexual means.
c: digestion is both extracellular and intracellular.
d: sexes are separate.
The correct statements are:
1. a and c only 2. b and d only
3. a, b and c only 4. a, b and d only
Subtopic:  Phylum Ctenophora |
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The structure shown in the given figure helps flatworms in:
           
1. Catching food and digesting it
2. Exchange of gases 
3. Excretion and Osmoregulation
4. Regeneration of lost body parts
Subtopic:  Phylum Platyhelminthes |
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Members of the Phylum Platyhelminthes differ from animals belonging to Phylum Annelida and Phylum Arthropoda in:
1. having two germ layers instead of three
2. lacking a coelom
3. showing bioluminescence
4. having a complete digestive system
Subtopic:  Phylum Platyhelminthes |
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Metamerism evolved for the first time in the members of the Phylum:
1. Annelida 2. Platyhelminthes
3. Aschelminthes 4. Chordata
Subtopic:  Phylum Annelida |
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Unlike Arthropods, Annelids:
1. have a true coelom lined by embryonic mesoderm
2. have a closed circulatory system
3. do not reproduce by sexual methods
4. have a complete digestive system
Subtopic:  Phylum Annelida |
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Which of the following is not an Echinoderm?
1. Sea Urchin 2. Sea lily
3. Brittle star 4. Brain coral
Subtopic:  Phylum Echinodermata |
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Consider the given two statements:
Statement 1: Hemichordates were earlier considered as a sub-phylum under Phylum Chordata but are now placed separately in a phylum under non-Chordata.
Statement 2:  Hemichordates have a rudimentary structure in the collar region called stomochord, a structure homologous to the notochord.
 
1.  Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are correct but Statement 2 does not explain Statement 1.
2.  Statement 1 is correct and Statement 2 is incorrect.
3.  Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are incorrect.
4.  Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are correct and Statement 2 explains Statement 1.
Subtopic:  Phylum Hemichordata |
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