Discuss in detail the external characters of Hemidactylus?

Q: Is scoliodon a shark?

A: Elasmobranchii is a subclass of cartilaginous fishes that have five to seven laterals to ventral…

Q: Is Hemidactylus poisonous?

A: The Common House Gecko or Hemidactylus is a reptile which occurs in tropical, subtropical, and…

Q: Identify the morphological differences between a tunicate and a lancelet.

A: The Chordates are known to be a large phylum. They include the animals, which possess notochord in…

Q: Define the role of buccal cavity in earthworm?

A: In the living world, we see a large number of microorganisms, animals and plants. These organisms…

Q: Give the names of the three divisions of cloaca in sand lizard in order beginning from anterior end?

A: Cloaca is the common chamber and outlet that opens into the exterior. It is present in amphibians,…

Q: Amphioxus does not possess a vertebral column? yes or no?

A: Amphioxus  They are also known as lanceolate and belonging to the group of invertebrate animals.

Q: Compare Class Maxillopoda and Class Branchiopoda

A: Arthropoda It is a much heterogeneous group including a variety of animals with divergent views…

Q: What is the phylum of scoliodon?

A: Introduction  Scoliodons are commonly called as Shark or Dogfish. They come under kingdom animalia.…

Q: Explain in detail the external characters of Scoliodon?

A: Class Chondricthyes includes the cartilaginous fishes. The fishes bear endoskeleton made up of…

Q: List four characteristics of teleosts that contributed to their incredible diversity and abundance

A: Teleosts belong to the class neopterygians. They include modern bony fish, which represent nearly…

Q: Barnacles can move as adults. True or False?

A: Step 1 - False . Barnacles do not move as adults but remain attached to their substratum ( termed as…

Q: What structural system is unique to the phylum Echinodermata?

A: Echinoderms:              Marine invertebrate animals characterized by a hard, spiny covering or…

Q: What are the different classification schemes used when grouping invertebrates?

A: Animal kingdom is broadly divided into Vertebrates or invertebrates on the presence of spinal cord…

Q: Differentiate artiodactyls from perissodactyls.

A: Mammals are one of the class of the  Phylum animalia.They posess certain features which…

Q: A. Which type of Armadillo belongs to the same phylum as Tityus? Give both the scientific name and…

A: In the living world, we see a large number of microorganisms, animals and plants. These organisms…

Q: Explain external features of frog?

A: Anatomy is the branch of biology, anatomy deals with the study of the structure of organisms and…

Q: What environment would you find an echinoderm?

A: Echinoderms have the following characteristics- 1. They are bilaterally symmetrical. 2. They have a…

Q: Define about Brachiopods? Define the importance of Brachiopods ?

A: The organisms of the ecosystem have significant properties. Depending upon the different features of…

Q: Define what are Cnidarians ? Explain the role of Cnidarians ?

A: Cnidaria is a phylum under kingdom Animalia containing more than 11,000 types of amphibian creatures…

Q: Give a broad Conclusion about the Anatomy of Amphioxus and its importance.

A: Branchiostoma or Amphioxus lives both in marine and estuarine habitats. It is commonly found in the…

Q: What are three derived characters of echinoderms? Describe each.

A: The group of multicellular and heterotrophic organisms belonging to the kingdom Animalia is called…

Q: Describe how cephalopods swim and how they eat.

A: After arthropods, Mollusca is the second largest phylum in animal kingdom with around 85,000 0f…

Q: Which myriapods occur in moist soil or leaf litter?

A: Myriapoda belongs to the subphylum of the arthropod. The myriapod is terrestrial primarily and…

Q: In what ways are cnidarians important?

A: Cnidarians is that term in which any animal belongs to the Phylum Cnidaria. Cnidarians is that term…

Q: Give the structure of eye or ear of lizard?

A: Lizards are reptiles which are belongs to the order Squamata. These are scaly-skinned reptiles which…

Q: What are the characterstics of chordata?

A: A chordate is a phylum which contains vertebrates like mammals, birds and some fishes and also…

Q: What sarcoptergians or lungfish (if any) are related to amphibians?

A: Ans. In the superclass Tetrapoda ("four limbs"), the vertebrate community that has left the Sea for…

Q: Explain syncytial blastoderm?

A: In most of the insects, superficial cleavage occurs in which the mitosis occurs without cytokinesis,…

Q: List the characteristic feature of sacrodines.

A: Protozoa are single-celled organisms. They come in many different shapes and sizes ranging from an…

Q: Explain two peculiar features of the body-wall muscles in nematodes.

A: Nematode is any unsegmented worm that belongs to the phylum Nematoda. The nematodes are commonly…

Q: Members of Chondrichthyes differ from members of Osteichthyes by having (a) ________. a. jaw b. bony…

A: Fishes are divided into three classes:- 1) CRANIATES that are jawless fishes. 2) GNATHOSTOMES that…

Q: Describe the coelom of a bony fish?

A: Coelom is a fluid-filled body cavity found in metazoans between the body wall and gut wall. It…

Q: What are various podomeres that make walking legs of the insects? Explain briefly

A: All the insects have their body segmented into the head, thorax and abdomen. The abdomen region…

Q: Explain endoskeleton present in the cockroaches.

A: Cockroaches are placed in phylum Arthropoda. They are basically insects of order Blattodea that also…

Q: Name the components of the epiphyseal apparatus of lizard?

A: Epiphysis, extended finish of the long bones in creatures, which hardens independently from the bone…

Q: Give the economic importance of Hemidactylus?

A: Hemidactylus is a genus that includes different types of geckos. It contains about 168 species of…

Q: Name a chordate having colourless blood without corpuscles?

A: The chordates are the vertebrates that belong to the kingdom Animalia and phylum Chordata. The…

Q: What functional problem results from torsion? How have gastropods evolved to avoid this problem?

A: The shell is first formed in the veliger larval stages of gastropods. This larval stage has two…

Q: What type of skeletal system do echinoderms have?

A: Echinoderms have the following characteristics- 1. They are radially symmetrical. 2. They are…

Q: What are amphisbaenians? What morphological adaptations do they have to aid in burrowing?

A: Reptiles are the tetrapod organisms and include lizards, snakes, crocodilians, and amphisbaenians.…

Q: Give the digrammatic representation showing Digestive system of Hemidactylus?

A: Hemidactylus is a genus of family Gekkonidae. They include different species of common geckos. They…

Q: How are tunicates and lancelets different than most other chordates?

A: All the organism of phylum Chordata has a structure called notochord at some point. During the…

Q: Describe the structure and function of the stinging cells for which cnidarians are named.

A: Introduction: Animal kingdom can be classified into vertebrate animals (without backbone) and…

Q: Explain in brief the habitat and habits of Hemidactylus?

A: Hemidactylus is a genus in the gecko family. The gecko is basically lizards, which are smaller in…

Classification of Marine Organisms

Classification is a way of categorizing organisms that enables an easy process of identification of such organisms. All living things are classified by grouping them under specific categories. The grouping is done based on the close relativeness of the organisms. The classification tool requires knowledge of characteristics, differences, and similarities between different organisms.