Animal kingdom Worksheet-2

( Phylum – Porifera )
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A Chamber common to all types of canal system of (c) Pheretima (d) Leucosolenia
sponges is called Sponges are
(a) Paragastric cavity (b) Radial chamber (a) Sessile (b) Planktonic
(c) Excurrent canal (d) Incurrent canal (c) Free-swimming (d) Pelagic
Which one is not typical to all porifers Which sponge is given as a gift in Japan
(a) Perforated body (a) Hyalonema (b) Euplectella
(b) Choanocytes (c) Tethya (d) Leucosolenia
(c) System of pores and canal Water currents in Leucosolenia are produced by
(d) Presence of spongin fibres (a) Choanocytes (b) Pinacocytes
Which of the following is a member of phylum (c) Archeocytes (d) Thesocytes
porifera Members of phylum porifera are
(a) Sycon (b) Leucosolenia (a) Exclusively marine animals
(c) Spongilla (d) All of them (b) Exclusively fresh water animal
Evolution of porifera from protozoans is evidenced
(c) Mostly fresh water animals but few are marine
by the animals like
animals
(a) Euglena (b) Chlamydomonas
(d) Mostly marine animals but few are fresh water
(c) Volvox (d) Paramecium animals
Amphiblastula and parenchymula larval stages are Which sponge is found in the river
found in the
(a) Cliona (b) Spongilla
(a) Coelenterata (b) Platyhelminthes
(c) Sycon (d) Hyalonema
(c) Porifera (d) None of these
What is found in a sponge
Feeding in sponges takes place through
(a) Choanocytes (b) Nematocysts
(a) Choanocytes (b) Nurse cells
(c) Amoebocytes (d) Interstitial cells
(c) ostia (d) Osculum
Sponges free swimming larva is called as Which of the following is boring sponge
(a) Veliger (b) Trochophore (a) Cliona (b) Chalina
(c) Parenchymula (d) Bipinnaria (c) Euplectella (d) Hyalonema
The most distinctive character of sponge is The common bath sponge belongs to the genus
(a) Presence of choanocytes (b)Unicellular (a)Sycon (b) Leucosolenia
(c) Marine (d) Asexual reproduction (c) Euspongia (d) Spongilla
Canal system is a characteristic of Classification of Phylum Porifera is based on
(a) Hydra (b) Sponge (a) Nutrition (b) Spicules
(c) Sea anemone (d) Sea urchin (c) Locomotion (d) Reproduction
Amphiblastula is the larva of
Fresh water sponges are also grouped in the
(a) Hydra (b) Sycon
(a) Calcarea (b) Heterocoela
(c) Planaria (d) Leucosolenia
(c) Demospongia (d) Trachinellida
What is left, when bathsponges dries up
"Venus flower basket" is the name of the dried
skeleton of (a) Spicules (b) Holdfast
(a) Euspongia (b) Euplectella (c) Tentacles (d) Spongin fibres
(c) Spongilla (d) Leucosolenia What will happen if a sponge is cut into maximum
possible pieces
In Leucosolenia, digestion takes place in the
(a) These will die
(a) Paragastric cavity (b) Stomach
(b) These will differentiate
(c) Osculum (d) Food vacuole
(c) Every piece will form a sponge
Parenchymula is the larva of [CPMT 1990]
(d) Some pieces will develop in organs
(a) Hydra (b) Ascaris
Which of the following cell type is capable giving (a) Diploblastic (b) Monoblastic
rise to other cell type in sponges (c) Triploblastic (d) Tetrablastic
(a) Archaeocytes (b) Collenocytes Nerve cells do not occur in
(c) Thesocytes (d) Pinacocytes (a) Nematodes (b) Mosquitoes
Spongin fibres are secreted by [BVP 2000]
(c) Sponges (d) Coelenterates
(a) Choanocytes (b) Pinacocytes Bath sponges is generally found in
(c) Amoebocytes (d) Spongioblasts (a) Red Sea (b) Gulf Mexico
Choanocytes perform (c) Pacific Islands (d) Mediterranean sea
(a) Nutritions (b) Excretion The simplest type of canal system in Porifera
(c) Reproduction (d) Secretion of spicules (a) Ascon type (b) Leucon type
Sponges capture food particles with the help up (c) Sycon type (d) Radial type
(a) Choanocytes (b) Pinacocytes Thesocytes serve as
(c) Thesocytes (d) Trophocytes (a) Sex cells (b)Slime secreting cells
Cell aggregate body plan is found in the (c) Food reserve (d) Embryonic cells
(a) Volvox (b)Colonial protozoans Animals devoid of respiratory, excretory and
(c) Porifera (d)Both (a) and (c) circulatory organs are
A sponges harmful to oyster industry is (a) Tapeworms (b) Sponges
(a) Spongilla (b) Euspongia (c) Thread worms (d) Live Fluke
(c) Hyalonema (d) Cliona Collar cells occur in
Path of water in a sponge is (a) Sponges
[CPMT 1984] (b) Hydra
(a) Dermal ostia  Gastral ostia  Osculum (c) Sandworm (d) Star fish
(b) Dermal ostia  Gastral ostia  Spongocoel Nutrition is sponges is
 Osculum (a) Extracellular
(b) Intracellular
(c) Osculum  Spongocoel  Choanocytes 
Ostia (c) First extracellular and then intracellular
(d) First intracellular and then extracellular
(d) Pinacocytes  Choanocytes  Enteron 
Osculum Carmine particle put above osculum of a sponge
would be
The epithelial lining of Sycon is made of
(a) Left there
(a) Amoebocytes (b) Choanocytes
(b) Ingested and digested
(c) Flat cells/Pinacocytes (d) Both (a) and (b)
(c) Thrown away
Internal asexual propagule of some fresh water
(d) Ingested and thrown away by ostia
sponges is
Totipotent cells of sponges are
(a) Gemmule (b) Planula
(a) Thesocytes (b) Archaeocytes
(c) Stereoblastula (d) Amphiblastula
(c) Myocytes (d) Chromocytes
Reproductive cells of sponges are formed from
Characteristics of sponges is
(a) Pinacocytes (b) Choanocytes
(a) Diploblastic
(c) Archaeocytes (d) Trophocytes
(b) Aquatics
Digestion of food occurs in sponges Leucosolenia
(c) Link between living and nonliving
in
(d) Body has pores
(a) Spongocoel
Sponges have evolved from
(b) Choanocytes followed by amoebocytes
(a) Ciliates (b) Flagellates
(c) Amoebocytes
(c) Protozoans (d) Choanoflagellates
(d) Choanocytes
Which is universal for sponges
Venus Flower Basket belongs to Phylum
(a) Marine (b) Calcareous spicules
(a) Porifera (b) Coelenterata
(c) Radial symmetry (d) High regenerative
(c) Echinodermata (d) Mollusca power
Animal which passes water current through its In sponges, canal system develops due to
body for food is [DPMT 1986]
(a) Gastrovascular system (b)Folding of inner walls
(a) Star fish (b) Sponge (c) Porous walls (d) Reproduction
(c) Hydra (d) Earthworm Osculum occurs in
Sponges are (a) Star Fish (b) Ray Fish
(c) Hydra (d) Sponge Answer Ley
Incurrent canals are lined by [CPMT 1998]
(a) Choanocytes (b) Pinacocytes
1 a 2 d 3 d 4 c 5 c
(c) Porocytes (d) None of the above
6 a 7 c 8 a 9 b 10 c
Choanocytes in Ascon-type of canal system form
lining of 11 b 12 d 13 d 14 a 15 b
(a) Spongocoel (b) Porocyte 16 a 17 d 18 b 19 a 20 a
(c) Apopyle (d) Incurrent canal 21 c 22 b 23 b 24 d 25 c
The middle layer in body wall of porifera is
26 a 27 d 28 a 29 a 30 c
(a) Mesoderm (b) Mesenchyme
(c) Mesogloea (d) Mesentery 31 d 32 b 33 c 34 a 35 c

Sponges structure corresponding to mouth of other 36 b 37 a 38 b 39 a 40 c

animals is 41 [BHU
d 1999]
42 a 43 c 44 b 45 a
(a) Incurrent canal (b) Ostium
46 b 47 c 48 b 49 d 50 d
(c) Osculum (d) Excurrent canal
51 d 52 b 53 d 54 b 55 a
Glass Rope sponge is
(a) Hyalonema (b) Euplectella 56 b 57 b 58 a 59 a 60 b
(c) Scypha (d) Spongilla 61 a 62 b 63 a 64 c 65 b
Type of spongocoel found in Leucosolenia is
(a) Ascon (b) Leucon
(c) Sycon (d) Rhagon
Skeleton made of spongin fibres occurs in
(a) Calcarea (b) Demospongiae
(c) Hexactinellida (d) Both (a) and (b)
Spicules of silica occur in
(a) Hyalonema (b) Sycon
(c) Leucosolenia (d) Grantia
Sponges are porifers because their bodies have
(a) Spicules in skeleton (b) Several pores
(c) Canal system (d) All the above
Which of the following are ‘multicellular grade’
organisms
(a) Sponges (b) Coelenterates
(c) Prokaryotes (d) Vertebrates
Canal system in porifera is not concerned with
(a) Respiration (b) Nutrition
(c) Sexual reproduction (d) None of these
Sycon belongs to a group of animals which are best
described as
(a)Unicellular or acellular
(b) Multicellular without any tissue organisation
(c) Multicellular with a gastrovascular
(d) Multicellular having tissue organisation, but no
body cavity