Exam Details

Subject Animal Diversity-I
Paper
Exam / Course Bachelor Degree Programme (Elective Course: Life Science)
Department School of Sciences (SOS)
Organization indira gandhi national open university
Position
Exam Date December, 2015
City, State new delhi,


Question Paper

Define the following terms:

Parthenogenesis

Zeitgeber

Differentiate between the following terms (any four)

Determinate and Indeterminate cleavage

Taxis and Kinesis

Cephalopod eye and Vertebrate eye

Gastrozooid and Dactylozooid

Haemoglobin and Chlorocruorin

Write the function of following structures (any three)

Coxal glands

Ctenidia

Spermatheca

Pectines

Give answer in one word only (any

A parasitic Crustacean

A class of Phylum Arthropoda, regarded as living fossil

A larval form of Phylum Mollusca

Describe the mechanism of ciliary-mucous feeding in sedentary polychaetes.

What is a cyst? Explain its advantages.

Describe polymorphism in insects with an example.

Discuss the advantages of polymorphism.

How do animals communicate with each other? Describe chemical signals in detail.

Give a list of three harmful and three useful non-chordates.

What are the different patterns of sexual reproduction Describe any two of them in detail.

Explain the advantages of sexual reproduction.

Give a diagrammatic representation of blood circulation in a gastropod.

What is the composition of a Mollusca shell?

Give two derivatives each, of the three principal germ layers.

7. Write short notes on any two of the following topics:

Tracheal mode of.respiration

Adaptive radiation inPolychaeta

Diagnostic features of Phylum Echinodermata

Explain the endocrine regulation of moulting and metamorphosis.

Match the animals listed in Column A to their respective phyla listed in Column B

ColumnA ColumnB

Ascaris Arthropoda
Chaetopterus Echinodermata
Palamnaeus Annelida
Sea lily Nematoda
Vorticella Protozoa


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Subjects

  • Animal Diversity- II
  • Animal Diversity-I
  • Cell Biology
  • Developmental Biology
  • Ecology
  • Electric & Magnetic Phenomena
  • Genetics
  • Mathematical Methods in Physics-I
  • Mathematical Methods In Physics-II
  • Optics
  • Oscillations And Waves
  • Physiology
  • Plant Diversity-I
  • Taxonomy and Evolution
  • Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics