Diversity In Living Organisms - CBSE - Class 9 - Science (CH7)

DIVERSITY IN LIVING ORGANISMS

(NCERT Solutions, Q & A ...)

Q1(CBSE 2011): What do you mean by biodiversity?

Answer: Biodiversity means the existence of a wide variety of species or other taxa of plants, animals and micro-organisms in a natural habitat within a specific environment.

Q2(NCERT): Why do we classify organisms? 

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Q(CBSE 2011): Why is there a need for classification and systematic naming of living organisms?



Answer: Classification helps us understand biodiversity better way. Biodiversity has direct and indirect economic benefits to humans as well as to our ecosystem. A systematic study of such biodiversity is essential to better understand the inter-relationships in our ecosystems. Following are the needs to classify them:

1. Plants and animals have valuable genetic variation information. It will help us understand the ways evolution take place.
2. Humans often benefit from plants and animals in different ways. A systematic study will help to explore other potential benefits.
3. Certain species warn us of imbalances in our ecosystem. e.g. white-rumped vultures became almost extinct because of use of drug burfen (diclofenac) in domestic animals. When vultures ate these dead animals, it led to their kidney failures. A systematic study of the organisms would help in restoring the balance in their ecosystems.
4. Plants and animals have been the inspiration for technology and engineering design. e.g. SONARS and RADARS work on the same acoustics principles as used by bats. Classification will help us revealing such more inspirations.
5. It is estimated that the Earth has almost 8.8 million animal, plant, and fungi species, but we’ve only discovered less than a one-fourth of this. Classification gives a system for identification of known and unknown organisms.

Q3(NCERT): What are the advantages of classification?

Answer:   Following are the advantages of classification:

1. Classification helps us identify the living organisms easily.
2. It makes a study of such a wide variety of bio-life in a systematic manner.
3. It helps us learning different plants and animals, similarities and dissimilarities among them.
4. Enables us understand how complex organisms evolve over the time. 
5. Classification helps us understand the inter-relationships among different groups.
6. It forms the basis of other branches of bio-sciences like bio-geography, environmental biology, ecology etc.
7. It also provides a systematic way to identify known and unknown organisms. 
8. Classification systems are adapted internationally. This aids communication between scientists.

Q4: Define Taxonomy.

Answer:  The branch of science that classify living organisms among different categories or groups is called taxonomy. Taxonomy is the science of identifying and naming species and organising them into systems of classification.


Q5: Who is known as the father of taxonomy?

Answer: Carl Linnaeus


Q6(NCERT): Give three examples of the range of variations that you see in lifeforms around you.

Answer: The present bio-diversity is the outcome of millions of years of evolution. We find various kinds of range of variations among bio-life such as:

1. Variation in terms of size:  Microorganisms are very small of the size of micrometres to 100m high large redwood trees and blue whales (30 meters in length).
2. Variations in terms of age: Some organisms like mosquitoes do not live more than two days while animals like tortoise and elephants live up to 100 years.
3. Variations in terms of nutrition: Some animals are herbivores, others are carnivores or omnivores.
4. Variations in colours: Worms are colourless, on the other hand flowers, butterflies, different types of birds are full of colours.

Q7: What is the primary reason for such a huge diversity we find in animals and plants?

Answer: Biological or organic evolution


Q8(NCERT):  Which do you think is a more basic characteristic for classifying organisms?
(a) the place where they live.
(b) the kind of cells they are made of. Why?

Answer: Option (b) the kind of cells they are made of, is the more basic characteristic for classifying organisms. It is for the following reasons:

1. Classifying organisms based on habitat is misleading. Apart from common habitat, there are no other common features among them. e.g. Lion and Rabbit both live on land but they differ from each other a lot. Further, sub-classification is not possible.
2. Cells are the functional and structural unit of life. Primarily we can differentiate organisms are unicellular and multicellular. Further sub-classification or logical sequence is possible based on cell types, its complexity etc.

Q9(NCERT): What is the primary characteristic on which the first division of organisms is made?

Answer: Cell design is the basic characteristic of the first division of organisms. It divides organisms primarily as prokaryotes and eukaryotes.


Q10: Define Taxon.

Answer: A taxon is a unit of classification of organisms which can be recognised to a definite category at any level of classification, e.g., fishes, birds, insects, etc.

Q11(NCERT): On what bases are plants and animals put into different categories?

Answer: Following bases are used to differentiate plants and animals:

• Cell Design: Plants have cell wall while animal cells do not.
• Nutrition: Plants make their own food (photosynthesis, autotrophic) while animals do not (heterotrophic).
• Body design: e.g.Plants can't move while animals can.

Q12: Who wrote the book The Origin of Species?

Answer: Charles Darwin - 1859 - He gave the idea of evolution.


Q13: Which region of the earth is called the region of megadiversity?

Answer: The warm and humid tropical regions of the earth, between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn, are rich in diversity of plant and animal life. This is called the region of megadiversity.


Q14: Name five countries that lie in the region of megadiversity.

Answer:  Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Zaire, Madagascar, Australia, China, India, Indonesia and Malaysia.


Q15: Define evolution.

Answer: Evolution is a complex process by which the characteristics of living organisms change over generations to generations and the traits are passed from one generation to the next. One of the main reason for diversity in bio-life is attributed to evolution.


Q16: Based on evolution, primarily how organisms are categorised?

Answer: Based on evolution, organisms are divided into two groups:

• Primitive or lower organisms and 
• Advanced or higher organisms.

Q17(NCERT): Which organisms are called primitive and how are they different from the so-called advanced organisms?

Answer:

Primitive Organisms	Advanced Organisms
1. Simple body organisation.	1. Complex body organisation.
2. Ancient body changes haven't changed much	2. Recent body design.
3. Considered at first ladder on the evolutionary scale.	3. Considered at successive ladders on the evolutionary scale.

Q18(NCERT): Will advanced organisms be the same as complex organisms? Why?

Answer: Yes. Because of complex body designs, we can consider advanced programs as complex organisms. Additionally, complexity in the design of advanced organisms increases over evolutionary time.


Q19: Name the book written by Carolus Linnaeus on the classification of organisms.

Answer: Systema Naturae


Q20: In how many kingdoms Carolus Linnaeus diving living beings?

Answer: Two kingdoms i.e. Plantae (Plants) and Animalia (Animals)


Q21: Name the levels of classification proposed by Linnaeus. What happens to similarities among organisms as we go from top to bottom level?

Answer: Classification systems as proposed by Linnaeus use a hierarchical system in which organisms are placed into groups, at different levels, according to the features they share. These groups or levels are(from top to bottom):

1. Kingdom
2. Phylum
3. Class
4. Order
5. Family
6. Genus
7. Species

Species is the lowest level in which group, we find the highest level of similarities and All members of a species are capable of interbreeding.

✍ How to memorise classification levels?
King ➤ Phil-nnaeus ➤ Classed ➤ Ordinary ➤ Families as ➤ Generous and ➤ Special
Kingdom ➤ Phylum ➤ Class    ➤ Order      ➤ Family        ➤ Genus             ➤ Species

Q22(NCERT): In the hierarchy of classification, which grouping will have the smallest number of organisms with a maximum of characteristics in common and which will have the largest number of organisms?

Answer: Taxon Species has the smallest number of organisms with a maximum number of characteristics in common. While taxon Kingdom will have the largest number of organisms with a maximum of differences among its members.


Q23: Name the scientist who created the third kingdom for all microscopic unicellular organisms. What did he call it?

Answer: After Linnaeus proposed two kingdoms, German biologist, Ernst Haeckel proposed the third kingdom for all microscopic unicellular organisms and called it Protists.


Q24: Who identified the Fungi as a separate multicellular eukaryotic kingdom and introduced five kingdoms? Name the five kingdoms.

Answer: R. H. Whittaker proposed five kingdoms and identified Fungi as a separate multicellular eukaryotic kingdom. The five kingdoms are:

• Monera: prokaryotic bacteria, blue-green algae or cyanobacteria
• Protista: unicellular protozoans like fungi, diatoms and algae
• Fungi: includes multi-nucleate fungi (yeast, mushroom)
• Plantae: multicellular eukaryotes includes green plants and advanced algae
• Animalia: multicellular animals

Q25(NCERT): Explain the basis for grouping organisms into five kingdoms.

Answer: The basis for grouping organisms into five kingdoms is:

• Cell Structure:  It has two major cellular structural divisions within living things i.e.  prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
• Number of Cells: It divides into unicellular and multicellular.
• Mode and source of nutrition: Organisms are divided based on the mode of nutrition i.e. autotrophic and heterotrophic.
• Phylogenetic Relationship and Body Organisation: Based on body organisation and evolution organisms are divided into simple and complex organisms.

Five Kingdoms Classification

Q26(NCERT): What is the criterion for classification of organisms as belonging to kingdom Monera or Protista? 

Answer: Organisms which do not have well-defined cell structure (prokaryotic cells) are grouped under Kingdom Monera. Organisms which are unicellular and eukaryotes are placed under Kingdom Protista.


Q27(NCERT): In which kingdom will you place an organism which is single-celled, eukaryotic and photosynthetic?

Answer: Kingdom Protista.


Q28: In which kingdom you will place an organism which is multicellular, eukaryotic, non-green heterotroph or saprophytic, lacks chlorophyll and has an absorptive mode of nutrition?

Answer: Kingdom Fungi


Q29: In which kingdom, you will place an organism which is multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotroph, lacks chlorophyll and has an ingestive mode of nutrition.

Answer: Kingdom Animalia.

Three domain classification

Q30: What is the contribution of Carl Woese (1977) in the classification of living beings?

Answer: He divided the Monera kingdom into Archaebacteria (or Archaea) and Eubacteria (or Bacteria). He also regrouped the five kingdoms into three domains i.e. Bacteria, Archaea and Eucaryotes.


Q31: Name the organisms which are outside the classification.

Answer: Viruses and Prions.


Q32: According to the five-kingdom system, which kingdom contains organisms whose structure is composed of prokaryotic cells?

Answer: Kingdom Monera.

Q33(CBSE 2011): Blue-green algae are classified with bacteria and placed in kingdom Monera.

Answer: Blue-green algae or Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic bacteria but they are placed under kingdom Monera because:

• they are unicellular.
• they show prokaryotic morphological structure i.e. not the well defined nucleus

Q34(CBSE 2011): (a) What are saprophytes? 
(b) Name the kingdom to which they belong.
(c) What is the cell wall of fungi made up of?or

Q(CBSE 2011): How do the saprophytes get their food? Give two examples of a saprophyte.

Answer: (a) Saprophytes are the organisms which use decaying organic material as food. Examples are Rhizopus, yeast, mushrooms, Aspergillus, Penicillium, Agaricus.

(b) They belong to kingdom Fungi.

(c) They have cell walls made of a tough complex sugar called chitin.

Lichens
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Q35: What is Symbiotic? Give an example of organisms which exhibit this relationship.

Answer: Some fungal species live in mutually dependent relationship with blue-green algae. Such
relationships are called symbiotic. These symbiotic life forms are called lichens. In lichens, the fungal component is called the mycobiont and the algal component is known as the phycobiont.

Q36: Classify the following organisms into their respective kingdoms as per Whittaker's five-kingdom system.

humans, mushroom, herbs, amoeba, E.coli, euglena, mold, birds, insects, bushes, paramecium, trees, dogs, streptococcus.

Answer:
Kingdom Monera: E.coli, streptococcus (bacteria)
Kingdom Protista: amoeba, euglena, paramecium
Kingdom Fungi: mushroom, mold,
Kingdom Plantae: herbs, bushes, trees
Kingdom Animalia: humans, birds, insects, dogs

Q37(NCERT): What are the major divisions in the Plantae? What is the basis for these divisions?

Answer: Major division in kingdom Plantae are:

• Thallophyta
• Bryophyta
• Pteridophyta
• Gymnosperms
• Angiosperms

 The division is based on the following features:

➊ The first level of classification among plants depends on whether plant body is well differentiated or not.
➋ The next level of classification is based on whether the differentiated body has special vascular tissues (xylem and phloem) for the transport of water and other substances.
➌ Further classification is based on the ability to bear seeds and
➍ Further it is classified whether the seeds are naked or enclosed within fruits.

Classification of Plants

Spirogyra

Q38: Give examples of Thallophyta plants.

Answer: Algae: Spirogyra, Ulothrix, Cladophora and Chara


Q39: Why are Thallophytes called non-embryonic plants?

Answer: Thallophytes have a simple body (thallus) and their gametes are unicellular. After fertilisation, the zygote does not form an embryo. Therefore these plants are called anon-embryonic plants.

Q40: Which division among plants has the simplest organisms?

Answer: Thallophyta division.

Q41: What is a thallus?

Answer: Thallophyte has a simple plant body. The Plant body is not differentiated into root, stem and leaves and is called thallus.

Q42(CBSE): Why bryophytes are called the amphibians of the plant kingdom?

Answer: Bryophytes are known as 'amphibians of the plant kingdom' because these plants can live in soil but are dependent on water for sexual reproduction.Usually, they are found in humid and damp areas.

Red Moss
(credits:wikicommons)

Q43: List important characteristics (at least three) of bryophytes.

Answer: Characteristics of bryophytes:

1. The plant body is differentiated to form stem and leaf-like structures.
2. These are considered first true plants.
3. These are called amphibians of the plants since they live in soil and water both.
4. There is no specialised tissue for the conduction of water and other substances from one part of the plant body to another (no vascular system).
5. An embryo is formed upon fertilisation. Water is necessary for fertilisation.

Moss in dense forest
credits:wikipedia

Q44: Give examples of bryophytes.

Answer: Funaria (moss) and Marchantia (liverwort)

Marchantia (liverwort)

Q45: What are the uses of bryophytes?

Answer: Bryophytes have good water holding capacity, therefore these are used in horticulture. They are used in medicines, construction material, smoke filters etc.

Q46: How are Pteridophytes' bodies organised?

Answer: The plant body a Pteridophyte is differentiated into roots, stem and leaves and has a simple vascular system for the conduction of water and other substances from one part of the plant body to another.

Marsilea (Pteridophyte)
image credits:wikicommons and University of Ovideo

Q47(CBSE 2011): How do thallophytes and pteridophytes differ from each other? Write two differences.

Answer:

Num.	Thallophytes	Pteridophytes
1.	Plant body is not well differentiated.	Plant body is differentiated into root, stems and leaves.
2.	No vascular system present for conduction of water and food substances.	Simpler vascular system present for conduction of water and substances.
3.	Mostly aquatic (algae)	Mostly land plants
4.	Spirogyra, Chara etc.	Ferns, Marsilea etc.

Q48: Name the plants that are called "First vascular land plants".

Answer: Pteridophytes.

Q49: On what basis plants are divided into two sub-kingdoms?

Answer: Whether the reproductive organs are conspicuous (clearly visible) or not, based on this plants are divided into two sub-kingdoms i.e.

• Cryptogamae: Non-flowering or seedless plants. Includes Thallophytes, bryophytes and pteridophytes.
• Phanerogamae: Flowering plants. Includes Gymnosperms and Angiosperms.

Q50(NCERT): How are pteridophytes different from the phanerogams?

Answer:

Num.	Pteridophytes	Phanerograms
1.	Have inconspicuous reproductive organs.	Well differentiated reproductive parts.
2.	Produce naked embryos called spores.	Produce seeds.
3.	Simple Vascular System	Highly differentiated vascular system
4.	Examples: Marsilea, Adiantum etc.	Examples: Pine, Cycas, Deodar, Sunflower, Maize etc.

Deodar (Gymnosperm)
credits:wikipedia

Q51: How Phanerogams are divided further chiefly?

Answer: Gymnosperms and Angiosperms

Q52: What are naked-seeded plants are called?

Answer: Gymnosperms.

Q53: Give two examples of Gymnosperms.

Answer: Pines and Deodar.

Q54(CBSE 2011): Define Cryptograms.

Answer:

1. Cryptograms are plants with hidden (inconspicuous) reproductive organs.
2. The thallophytes, the bryophytes and the pteridophytes collectively called cryptograms.
3. External flowers or seeds are absent and they have naked embryos called spores.

Q55(NCERT): How do gymnosperms and angiosperms differ from each other? 

Answer:

Num.	Gymnosperms	Angiosperms
1.	Naked seed i.e. seeds not enclosed within a fruit.	Seeds are enclosed with fruit walls (cotyledons).
2.	Flowers are represented as unisexual cones which produce spores.	Microspores are anthers while megaspores are ovules.
3.	Ovules not located in ovary	Ovules present inside an ovary.
4.	Examples: Pines, Cycas, Deodar etc.	Examples: Sunflower, Maize, Wheat, Pea, bean etc.

Q56: How Angiosperms are divided further?

Answer: Angiosperms are divided into two groups on the basis of the number of cotyledons present in the seed.

• Monocotyledonous or monocots: These are the plants with seeds having a single cotyledon, e.g. maize, wheat, rice, etc.
• Dicotyledonous or dicots: These are plants with seeds having two cotyledons, e.g. pea, gram, bean, etc.

Q57(CBSE 2011): Write the differences between monocots and dicots.

Answer:

-	Monocots	Dicots
Cotyledons	One Cotyledon	Two Cotyledons
Veins in leaves	Usually Parallel	Generally netlike
Flower Parts	In general multiple of three	In fours or five
Arrangement of primary vascular bundles in stem	Scattered	In a ring

Q58: What are the general characteristics found in all animals?

Answer: General characteristics found in all animals are:

1. All animals are multicellular, eukaryotic and heterotrophic.
2. All animals exhibit locomotion.
3. Most of the animals have sense organs and nervous system.
4. Nutrition is generally ingestive.
5. Reproduction is generally sexual.

Kindom Animalia is divided into nine phyla

Q59: In how many Phyla, the animal kingdom is divided into?

Answer: Kindom Animalia is divided into nine phyla i.e.

1. Porifera (sponges)
2. Coelenterata (jellyfishes, corals...)
3. Platyhelminthes (flat worms)
4. Nematoda (round worms)
5. Annelida (earthworms)
6. Arthropoda (insects, spiders, crabs etc.)
7. Mollusca (snails, oysters etc.)
8. Echinodermata (starfishes, sea urchins etc.)
9. Chordata (animals with backbone)

Q60(CBSE 2011): Name the phylum to which the following are included.

 (i) Spider
(ii) Cockroach
(iii) Prawn
(iv) Housefly

Answer:   Arthropods

Q61(CBSE 2011): Write two important characteristics of  sponges (Phylum: Porifera)

Sponges
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Answer: Important characteristics of sponges are:

1. simplest multi-cellular animals.
2. most of them are marine except spongilla which is fresh water.
3. non-motile and attached to support
4. organisms with holes or ‘pores’, all over the body with canal systems.
5. canal system of the body helps in circulating water throughout the body to bring in food and
   oxygen.
6. animals are covered with a hard outside layer or skeleton.
7. body design involves very minimal differentiation and division into tissues.

Spongilla (freshwater)
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Q62: What is osculum?

Answer: The body of a sponge is porous and the pores are called ostia. Single large opening or pore is
called the osculum.

Q63: Do sponges have a nervous system?

Answer: No

Q64: Give examples of Porifera or Sponges.

Answer: Euplectelia, Sycon, Spongilla

Sea Anemones
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Q65: Identify the phylum having following characteristics: multi-cellular, radially symmetrical, aquatic, hollow gut.

Answer: Phylum Coelenterata


Q66(CBSE 2011): What are four main features of phylum coelenterates?

Answer: Main features of  phylum Coelenterata:

1. Aquatic habitat (marine + freshwater)
2. radially symmetrical
3. Show more body design differentiation.
4. Sac-like body cavity (coelenteron) with a single opening to the outside for ingestion and egestion.
5. First of multicellular animals which possess tissue level organisation with a distinct division of labour.
6. Body wall made up of two layers (diploblastic), of which outer is called ectoderm and inner is endoderm. Between these two layers found jelly like substance mesoglea.
7. Surrounding the mouth tentacles are found, that helps in locomotion and to catch the prey.
8. Some of the species live in colonies (corals), while others have a solitary life-span (Hydra).

Q67: 'Animals belong to phylum Coelenterata are diploblastic.' What do you mean by the term diploblastic?

Answer: Diploblastic means animals having two germ layers. Body walls of animals of phylum Coelenterata are made up of two layers, of which outer is called ectoderm and inner is endoderm. Between these two layers found jelly like substance mesoglea.

Q68(CBSE 2011): Label A to H in the given diagram of hydra.

Answer:

1. Tentacles
2. Mouth
3. Stinging cells
4. Epidermis
5. Mesoglea
6. Endoderm
7. Body Cavity
8. Foot

Q69: Which animal phylum is commonly called as flatworms?

Answer: Platyhelminthes (Platy  = flat, helminth = worms)


Q70: Which animal phylum is considered to be first triploblastic animals?

Answer: Platyhelminthes. Animals of this phylum are the first simplest triploblastic animals. They have three layers i.e. endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm.

Freshwater Planaria
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Q71: Write important features about Phylum Platyhelminthes.

Answer:

1. Mostly parasitic
2. First simplest triploblastic animals i.e. having three layers of body cells.
3. Bilaterally symmetrical
4. No true internal body cavity or coelom
5. Body is dorsoventrally flattened
6. Examples: Planaria, Liverfluke, Tapeworm

Q72(NCERT): How do poriferan animals differ from coelenterate animals?

Answer:

Num.	Poriferan Animals	Coelentrate Animals
1.	Cellular level organisation.	Tissue level organisation.
2.	Mostly marine and non-motile.	Aquatic either solitary life or colonial life.
3.	Examples: Spongilla, Euplectelia etc.	Examples: Hydra, sea anemones, corals etc.

Q73: Which phylum is commonly called roundworms or pinworms?

Answer: Nematoda or Aschelminthes


Q74: Give examples of animals belong to Nematoda.

Answer: Ascaris (intestinal roundworm), Wuchereria (filarial worm), Enterobium (pinworm).


Q75: Name a parasitic disease caused by members of Nematoda.

Answer: Elephantiasis caused by filarial worms (Wuchereri).

Leech
credits:wiki commons

Q76: Name the first animals (phylum) that have a true body cavity.

Answer: Annelida


Q77: Leeches and Earthworms belong to which phylum?

Answer: Annelida


Q78(CBSE 2011): Differentiate between Annelida and Nematode. 

Answer:

Num.	Nematoda	Annelida
1.	Tissues but no real organs.	True organs packaged in body structure.
2.	Body Cavity is not true coelom (pseudocoelom)	True body Cavity
3.	The body is cylindrical	Body is segmented.
4.	e.g. Ascaris, Wucharia	e.g. Leeches, Earthworms, Nereis

Q79: Name the largest group (phylum) of animals.

Answer: Arthropoda (animals with jointed legs). It includes nearly 9 million species.

Arthropoda largest Phylum
(credits: wikimedia)

Q80: Give examples of Arthropod animals.

Answer: Prawns, butterflies, houseflies, spiders, scorpions and crabs etc.


Q81(CBSE 2011): What is the most striking feature of phylum Arthropoda?

Answer: Species of phylum Arthopoda have jointed legs and a pair of compound eye on the head.


Q82: How is a body of Arthropods segmented?
Answer: Arthropods have a segmented and bilaterally symmetrical body which is divided into three regions:

• head
• thorax
• abdomen

Q83: What is the type of circulatory system present in Arthropods?

Answer: There is an open circulatory system. The blood does not flow in well-defined blood vessels. The coelomic cavity is blood-filled called "haemocoel".


Q84(NCERT): How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?

Answer:

Num.	Annelids	Arthropods
1.	True body cavity called coelem	Blood filled body cavity called haemocoel.
2.	Lateral appendages for locomotion.	Jointed legs for locomotion
3.	Closed circulatory system	Open circulatory System.
4.	Body is soft, there is no hard skeleton	Hard Exoskeleton made up of chitin
5.	The body is segmented both externally and internally (septa)	e.g. Body is externally divided but not internally by septa.
6.	e.g. Leech, earthworms etc.	e.g. Insects, spiders, prawns etc.

Q85: Give examples of animals that belong to Phylum Mollusca.

Answer: Chiton, Octopus, Pila, Unio


Q86: What kind of circulatory system is found in animals from Mollusca phylum?

Answer: Open circulatory system

Octopus
credits:wikipedia

Q87: How is locomotion brought in animals belonging to Mollusca phylum?

Answer: Animals of Mollusca are soft bodied and locomotion is brought about by muscular foot.


Q88: Name the phylum to which Start fish and Sea urchin belong to?

Answer: Phylum Echinodermata


Q89(CBSE 2011): Name the phylum to which this organism belongs. Write any two characteristic feature of the phylum.

Answer:  The organism is octopus which belongs to phylum Mollusca.
Characteristic features of Mollusca are:

1. They have an open circulatory system and kidney-like organs for excretion.
2. The coelomic cavity is reduced
3. There is a foot that is used for moving around.

Q90: What is a notochord? What does it do?

Answer: The notochord is a long rod-like support structure (chord=string) which runs along the back of the animal separating the nervous tissue from the gut. It provides a place for muscles to attach for ease of movement.


Q91: Give examples of organisms which belong to Phylum Protochordata.

Answer: Balanoglossus,Herdmania and Amphioxus


Q92: List three important characteristics of Phylum Protochordata.

Answer: Important characteristics of Phylum Protochordata are:

• Marine animals, triploblastic and have coelem.
• The notochord is present at some stages of life.
• Bilaterally symmetrical.

Q93: Why are Bats and whales classified as mammals?

Answer: Because bats and whales have four-chambered heart.


Q94(CBSE 2014): A plant specimen was found without differentiated roots.
(a) Which plant structure helps in attaching this plant to the substratum?
(b) To which group you will keep this plant?
(c) Which plant could it be?

Answer:  (a) Rhizoids
(b) Thallophyta
(c) Moss


Question 95(CBSE 2015): Give the scientific names of tiger, peacock, ant, neem, lotus and potato.

Answer:
Lotus: Nelumbo nucifera
Ant: Formicidae
Neem: Azadirachta indica
Tiger: Panthera tigris
Peacock: Pavo cristatus
Potato: Solanum tuberosum