ZOOLOGY FOR PGCET & APSET- II
                   G.L.N.Prasad, Head, Dept of Zoology, GDC(M) Anantapur

1. Balanoglossus is the connecting link between invertebrata and chordata
2.  Ascidians are also called sea squirts
3.  Test in urochordates is made up of tunicin
4. Tunicin is similar to cellulose
5.  Strongest animals in animal kingdom are urochordates
6.  Hemichordata was separated from chordata by Hyman
7.  The jaw less  ectoparasitic  vertebrates are cyclostomes
8. Willey called Amphioxus as prototype chordate
9.  Endostyle of protochordates is analogous to thyroid gland of vertebrates
10.  Endostyle found in protochordates is useful for ciliary mode of feeding
11. Stomochord present in Balanoglossus is called buccal diverticulum
12. Petromyzon marinus is marine lamprey
13. Lampetra fluviatilis is fresh water lamprey
14. Petromyzon attaches to the host with suctorial mouth
15. Sharks are commonly called sea wolves
16. Flat fish is scientifically called Cyanoglossus
17. Cyanoglossus has both eyes on the same side
18. Angler fish and Hatchet fish exhibit bioluminescence
19. Diodon is porcupine fish
20. Fish with high parental care is Hippocampus
21. The fish that contains scutes and bony plates apart from scales is Hippocampus
22. Bones that connect air bladder of fish with internal ear are weberian ossicles
23. Relationship between sucker fish and shark is commensalism
24. Sucker fish is also called Remora
25. Most venomous fish is Stone fish
26. Vertebrae of fish are amphicoelous
27. Axolotl larva is called servant of water
28. Romer called amphibians as the defeated vertebrates
29. Salamanders and newts belong to Urodela
30. Amphibian with copulatory organ is Icthyophis
31. Red Indians smear their arrows with the poisonous secretions of phyllobates (frog)
32. Surinam toad lacks tongue
33. Antiperistalisis is also called anastalsis
34. The mammals with highest rate of metabolism are shrews
35. Caffeine, chloroform and high temperature hasten rigour mortis
36. The condition of excretion of haemoglobin in urine is called haemoglobinuria
37. Common stain used to prepare blood smear is Leishman's stain
38. Neuron was discovered by Fossel and His
39. 11th and 12th pairs of ribs in man are called floating ribs
40. Diphycercal caudal fin in Dipnoi fish