NCERT Class 9 MCQ Quiz Hub

1. Find out incorrect sentence:
Protista includes unicellular eukaryotic organisms
Whittaker considered cell structure, mode and source of nutrition classifying the organisms in five kingdoms
Both Monera and Protista may be autotrophic and heterotrophic
Monerans have well defined nucleus

2. Which among the following has specialised tissue for conduction of water? (i) Thallophyta (ii) Bryophyta (iii) Pteridophyta (iv) Gymnosperms
(i) and (ii)
(ii) and (iii)
(iii) and (iv)
(i) and (iv)

3. Which among the following produce seeds?
Thallophyta
Bryophyta
Pteridophyta
Gymnosperms

4. Which one is a true fish?
Jellyfish
Starfish
Dogfish
Silverfish

5. Which among the following is exclusively marine?
Porifera
Echinodermata
Mollusca
Pisces

6. Which among the following have open circulatory system? (i) Arthropoda (ii) Mollusca (iii) Annelida (iv) Coelenterata
(i) and (ii)
(iii) and (iv)
(i) and (iii)
(ii) and (iv)

7. In which group of animals, coelom is filled with blood?
Arthropoda
Annelida
Nematoda
Echinodermata

8. Elephantiasis is caused by
Wuchereria
Pinworm
Planarians
Liver flukes

9. Which one is the most striking or (common) character of the vertebrates?
Presence of notochord
Presence of triploblastic condition
Presence of gill pouches
Presence of coelom

10. Which among the following have scales? Amphibians (ii) Pisces (iii) Reptiles (iv) Mammals
(i) and (iii)
(iii) and (iv)
(ii) and (iii)
(i) and (ii)

11. Find out the false statement.
Aves are warm-blooded, egg laying and have four-chambered heart.
Aves have feather covered body, forelimbs are modified as wing and breathe through lungs.
Most of the mammals are viviparous.
Fishes, amphibians and reptiles are oviparous.

12. Pteridophyta do not have
root
stem
flowers
leaves

13. Identify a member of porifera
Spongilla
Euglena
Penicillium
Hydra

14. Which is not an aquatic animal?
Hydra
Jelly fish
Corals
Filaria

15. Amphibians do not have the following
Three-chambered heart
Gills of lungs
Scales
Mucus glands

16. Organisms without nucleus and cell organelles belong to (i) fungi (ii) protista (iii) cyano bacteria (iv) archae bacteria
(i) and (ii)
(iii) and (iv)
(i) and (iv)
(ii) and (iii)

17. Which of the following is not a criterion for classification of living organisms?
Body design of the organism
Ability to produce one’s own food
Membrane bound nucleus and cell organelles
Height of the plant

18. The feature that is not a characteristic of protochordata?
Presence of notochord
Bilateral symmetry and coelom
Jointed legs
Presence of circulatory system

19. The locomotory organs of Echinodermata are
tube feet
muscular feet
jointed legs
parapodia

20. Corals are
Poriferans attached to some solid support
Cnidarians, that are solitary living
Poriferans present at the sea bed
Cnidarians that live in colonies

21. Who introduced the sytem of scientific nomenclature of organisms?
Robert Whittaker
Carolus Linnaeus
Robert Hooke
Ernst Haeckel

22. Two chambered heart occurs in
crocodiles
fish
aves
amphibians

23. Skeleton is made entirely of cartilage in
Sharks
Tuna
Rohu
None of these

24. One of the following is not an Annelid?
Nereis
Earthworm
Leech
Urchins

25. The book Systema Naturae was written by
Linnaeus
Haeckel
Whittaker
Robert Brown

26. Karl Von Linne was involved with which branch of science?
Morphology
Taxonomy
Physiology
Medicine

27. Real organs are absent in
Mollusca
Coelenterata
Arthropoda
Echinodermata

28. Differentiation in segmental fashion occurs in
Leech
Starfish
Snails
Ascaris

29. In taxonomic hierarchy family comes between
Class and Order
Order and Genus
Genus and Species
Division and Class

30. 5-Kingdom classification has given by
Morgan
R. Whittaker
Linnaeus
Haeckel

31. Well defined nucleus is absent in
blue green algae
diatoms
algae
yeast

32. he ‘Origin of Species’ is written by
Linnaeus
Darwin
Hackel
Whittaker

33. Meena and Han observed an animal in their garden. Hari called it an insect while Meena said it was an earthworm. Choose the character from the owing which confirms that it is an insect.
Bilateral symmetrical body
Body with jointed legs
Cylindrical body
Body with little segmentation