Why Rattlesnakes Rattle?

Q: Tapetum lucidum is found in shark's eye. Is it so?

A: Vertebrates comprise all species of animals within the subphylum Vertebrata. Vertebrates include…

Q: Why are leeches used for the studying nervous system function?

A: The medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis is a notable model in neurobiology because of its capacity to…

Q: How are tardigrades able to survive in harsh conditions?

A: Tardigrades can be present almost everywhere on the planet. The phylum has been seen from…

Q: What are the most important spiders in the United States that are dan-gerous to humans? How does…

A: Spiders belong to the category of arthropods and it is known to produce uric acid from the…

Q: why do gray squirrels prefer crushed walnuts than walnuts with shells?

A: Normal squirrels have four front teeth that never stop growing and make it easy for them to eat…

Q: 40. A marine biologist asked you to look out for Echinodermata in an expedition. Which of these…

A: The first organism that is listed is a crab. It shows presence of jointed appendages and shows an…

Q: What are nymph and imago?

A: The biological change in which an organism like an insect physically develops after birth and…

Q: Sea Star  What is the function of the eye-spot?

A: Eye-spot small red spot on the tip of each arm; sensitive to light.  These are light-sensitive…

Q: What is the function of Jacobson’s organ of snakes?

A: Order Squamata includes snakes, lizards, and amphisbaenians. The snakes are considered as the…

Q: How do whales get their energy and matter?

A: Whales are marine animals , belong to the class- Mammalia and order- Artiodactyla. They are aquatic…

Q: How does nature keep insects under control?

A: Natural control of insects refers to the control of insects provided by natural processes, without…

Q: Should we be concerned about Monkeypox?

A: Virus is usually a cunning microbe, it can hijack whole of the body's system of the host and can…

Q: Are lizards dangerous?

A: Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles. 6,000 species of lizards found across all…

Q: Why are robber crabs land invertebrates?

A: Robber crab which is also known as coconut crab, scientific name Birgus latro , it is a species of…

Q: What does the gibberellins help for?

A: Gibberellins ( GAs ) are plant hormones also known as plant growth regulators that are important for…

Q: Why are horseshoe crabs not crabs (or crustaceans)?

A: Crustaceans are essential for a group, or taxon, classified as arthropods. The fundamental passing…

Q: What species of snakes are immune to venomous snake venom?

A: Snakes are slender and elongated reptiles without limbs, eyelids, and external ears. The whole body…

Q: Why are insects hard to control?

A: A pest is defined as an organism, plant, insect, or animal capable of interfering with human…

Q: How do insects walk?

A: The legs of insects are jointed and consist of five parts that are femur, tarsus, tibia, trochanter,…

Q: From where does the woodpecker get its powerful chisel of a bill?

A: Adaptation is the only means by which an organism can cope with the unfavorable circumstances that…

Q: Differentiate between poisonous and non poisonous snake

A: Snakes are carnivorous animals that belong to the sub-order Serpentes and all the snakes share the…

Q: 26. Provide an example of a jelly fish that is not a predator and how it feeds.

A: Jelly fish belong to the sub-phylum medusozoa under the phylum cnidaria. Jelly fish are marine…

Q: What does a milkweed bugs mouth look like

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Q: Why do parasites like trematodes produce such large quantities of eggs?

A: The trematode reproduces asexually inside this mollusk host, creating numerous copies of a second…

Q: 36.Cadicone , referring to a loosely coiled , evolute ammonoid resembling a coiled snake Select one…

A: Ammonites are a group of extinct marine mollusks in the subclass ammonoidea of the class…

Q: brain eating amoeba

A: Naegleria fowleri (brain-eating ameba) is a type of free-living single-celled ameba that causes…

Q: Why do so many animals have two eyes?

A: The eyes are the special sense organs that detect light.

Q: How does a crayfish detect changes in position?

A: The freshwater crustaceans that belong to the phylum Arthropoda and Kingdom Animalia are known as…

Q: What is the function of the arachegonium? O a. To carry out a sexual reproductive O b. To produce…

A: An archegonium is a multicellular construction or organ of the gametophyte period of specific…

Q: Can rat lungworm die from UVC light

A: The rat lungworm also called as Angiostrongyliasis. It is caused by roundworm parasite, its…

Q: Are 4 O clocks poisonous to cats?

A: 4 'O' clock are the flowers which usually bloom in the late afternoon between 4 and 8 'O' clock, as…

Q: What is poison Ivy/Poison Oak/Poison Sumac/Wood Nettle

A: The poison Ivy/Poison Oak/Poison Sumac/Wood Nettle these all are poisonous plant and are native to…

Q: Do sea urchins have teeth?

A: Sea urchins belong to class Echinoidea and phylum Echinodermata under the Animalia kingdom. They are…

Q: What is the function of the “pit” of pit vipers?

A: The snakes are considered as the monophyletic group of the order Squamata. Viper is any of more than…

Q: Cnidaria (jellyfish and anemones) This is the first time we see a nervous system (nerve net) What…

A: Cnidarians The Cnidarians are diploblastic, They have structured tissue, experience extracellular…

Q: Why aren't there insects the size of horses?

A: Insects belong to a phylum arthropoda, means animals with joined appendages and horse belongs to…

Q: who is nightingale?

A: Modern nursing originated in British in the mid 19th century. Nursing was not considered a great…

Q: What’s an invertebrate?

A: RH Whittaker gave the five-kingdom classification and divided all the living organisms into the five…

Q: Lay eggs Live in water Breathe water Have scales Live birth Can swim WHALES FISH Have fins Have hair…

A: Whales belong to the aquatic placental marine mammals. These are the largest animals and live in the…

Q: Tell about the tail of Lizard?

A: World  is home to all kinds of lizards. We have seen one climbing up the wall, scurrying through the…

Q: How geckos stick to walls?

A: Geckos are nocturnal and docile. They hunt for insects. They can survive without water for many…

Q: Filter - feeding is a very common way to collect food from water, but this method is rarely used on…

A: Filter feeding is a primitive character used by mainly the animals living in the water. These…

Q: The saber-tooth blenny mimics what other species?

A: Mimicry in biology is the similarity seen in one or more species with respect to physical…

Q: On what basis is L.  interrogans named?

A: L. interrogans is Leptospira interrogans. It is a gram-negative bacteria that is responsible for…

Animal Behavior

Animal behavior can be defined as all the things that animals do. In response to a stimulus, an animal performs a certain fixed action pattern, or FAP, of behavior. This response occurs to make the animal more adaptable to change. So, behavior is generally a stimulus-oriented response. A behavior is an expression of the capabilities of the nervous system. A stimulus is determined by the environment, while the nervous system determines a response.