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K. VENKATARAMAN
ENTOMOLOGY
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The class Insecta is also referred to as
a) Octopoda
b) Decapoda
c) Hexapoda
d) None of the above
d) All the above
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a) It does not like blood
The dorsal plate of insect body is called
b) It does not have antenna
a) Sternum
b) Tergum
c) It does not have mandibles
c) Pleuron
d) Epimeron
d) It does not have hypopharynx
Elytra refers to
a) Hind wings of insects
b) Fore wings of beetles
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The first abdominal segment is fused with the metathorax in
this group of insects
c) Wings of Honey bee
d) Wings of Thrips
a) Coleoptera
b) Hemiptera
c) Hymenoptera
d) Lepidoptera
Sponging and sucking mouth parts are present in
a) House fly
b) Mosquito
c) Honeybee
d) Bedbug
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Halteres are found in
a) May fly
b) Fire fly
c) House fly
d) Stone fly
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Respiratory organs of insects are
a) Trachea
b) Gills
c) Plastron
d) All the above
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The insect belonging to this order is capable of digesting
cellulose
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d) All the above
Ommatidia refers to
a) Compound eyes
b) Tactile hairs
c) Stridulatory organs
d) Chordotonal organs
Sound produced by insects is by
a) Legs
b) Wings
c) Tegmen
d) All the above
The larva of dragon fly
a) Caterpillar
b) Grub
d) Plecoptera
c) Naid
d) Tadpole
Drones are
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Oryctus rhinoceros beetle is a pest on
a) Female worker bees
b) Female reproductive bees
a) Coconut
b) Banana
c) Male worker bees
d) male reproductive bees
c) Mango
d) Palm
Culex mosquito is differentiated from Anopheles by one of
the following
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d) All the above
13 to 17 years of larval life is spent underground by this
insect
a) Corixa
c) Corydia
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Gryllotalpa is commonly known as
a) Mole-cricket
b) Cricket
c) Grass-hopper
d) Locust
Which one of the following belongs to Endopterygota
a) Neuroptera
b) Plecoptera
c) Isoptera
d) Odonata
One of the following is a beneficial insect
b) Cicada
a) Lac insect
b) Leaf insect
d) Cimex
c) Stick insect
d) Butterfly
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Moth differs from butterfly in one of the following
A primitive apterygote insect
a) Plumose antenna in moth
a) Silver fish
b) Star fish
b) Apodus caterpillar
c) Cuttle fish
d) Puffer fish
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c) Mouth parts
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b) Glossina
c) Tabanus
c) Diptera
c) Respiratory trumpets are short and broad at margin
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a) Triatoma
b) Embioptera
b) When at rest culex body is parallel to the substratum
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Blood sucking insect
a) Isoptera
a) Culex lays eggs singly
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Why a male mosquito does not bite and suck blood
Larva is aquatic but adult is terrestrial in this insect
d) In the pupa
a) Dragon fly
b) May fly
A Coleopteran insect is commonly called
c) House fly
d) All the above
a) Bug
b) Beetle
c) Fly
d) Wasp
Answers:
1. c 2. b 3. b 4. a 5. c 6. d 7. a 8. d 9. b 10. b
11. a 12. b 13. c 14. c 15. c 16. d 17. a 18. d 19. c 20. a
Which one is called a crab-louse
a) Pediculus humanus capitis
b) Pediculus humanus corporis
c) Pthirus pubis
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Contributed by Dr. K. Venkataraman, Retd. Reader and Head, Dept. of Zoology,
Madura College. Address: A-T-2 Porkudam apartments, Bypass Road,
Madurai-625010
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PRADEEP KUMAR CHAURASIA
COMMON HUMAN DISEASES
1. Typhoid is caused by:
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a) Escherichia
b) Shigella
c) Salmonella
d) Giardia
Plague is caused by:
a) Xanthomonas
b) Pasteurella pestis
c) Varicella virus
d) Pseudomonas
Filariasis is due to:
a) Helminth
b) Protozoan
c) Bacterium
d) Virus
The severe and fatal malaria is caused by Plasmodium species:
a) P. vivax
b) P. ovale
c) P. malariae
d) P. falciparum
Dengue is caused by:
a) Female Anopheles
b) Female Aedes
c) Male Anopheles
d) All of the above
A sexually transmitted disease caused by bacteria is:
a) Leprosy
b) AIDS
c) Syphilis
d) Pertusis
Syphilis is caused by:
a) Treponema pallidum b) Leptospira
c) Pasteurella
d) Vibrio
A water borne disease is:
a) Small pox
b) Tuberculosis
c) Malaria
d) Cholera
Cholera is due to a:
a) Protozoan
b) Fungus
c) Virus
d) Bacterium
Leprosy is due to:
a) Monocystis
b) TMV
c) Filiariasis
d) Amoebiasis
Which disease is caused by a nematode?
a) Poliomyelitis
b) Leprosy
c) Filiariasis
d) Amoebiasis
Chicken pox is caused by:
a) Varicella virus
b) Adeno virus
c) Bacteriophage T2
d) S.V. 40 virus
Causative agent of TB is:
a) Salmonella typhae
b) Mycobacterium tuberculosis
c) Streptococcus pneumoniae
d) Pneumococcus
Polio is caused by:
a) Virus with single stranded RNA
b) Virus with double stranded RNA
c) Virus with single stranded DNA
d) Virus with double stranded DNA
Small pox and rabies (hydrophobia) are caused by:
a) Virus
b) Protozoan
c) Bacterium
d) Nematode
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A viral disease is:
a) Cancer
b) Typhoid
c) Leukemia
d) Yellow fever
Cancer is:
a) Nonmalignant tumour
b) Controlled division of cell
c) Uncontrolled division of cell
d) Viral infection
Trypanosomiasis is spread by:
a) Housefly
b) Sand fly
c) Tse-tse fly
d) Culex
Entamoeba histoly tica causes:
a) Chicken pox
b) Tetanus
c) Dysentery
d) Elephantiasis
Bacterium that causes diphtheria belongs to:
a) Bacillus
b) Corynebacterium
c) Diplococcus
d) Clostridium
Mumps is a disease caused by:
a) Protozoan
b) Virus
c) Bacterium
d) Fungus
Trachoma is caused by:
a) Chlamydia
b) Bacterium
c) Fungus
d) Protozoan
Viral diseases are:
a) Influenza and amoebiasis
b) Influenza, rabies and elephantiasis
c) Influenza, rabies and AIDS
d) Polio, Trachoma and ascariasis
Tetanus is caused by:
a) Mycobacterium tetani b) Clostridium tetani
c) Mycobacterium leprae d) Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Microorganisms commonly causing diarrhoeal diseases
are:
a) E. coli, Shigella sp., Campylobacter and Bacillus pertusis
b) Clostridium tetani, Giardia, Entamoeba histolytica,
Salmonella, Shigella and E. coli
c) E.coli, Giardia, Shigella, Campylobacter and Salmonella
d) Neisseria, Treponema, E. coli, Giardia, Shigella,
Campylobacter and Salmonella
Answers:
1. c 2. b 3. a 4. d 5. b 6. c 7. a 8. d 9. d 10. c
11. c 12. a 13. b 14. a 15. a 16. d 17. c 18. c 19. b 20. b
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Contributed by Shri Pradeep Kumar Chaurasia (Research Scholar), Department
of Zoology, St. Andrew’s College, Gorakhpur-273001. Address: At PO-Mahuawan
Bajaratar, Distt-Deoria, U.P.-274408
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