FROG
1. Where do frogs live?
A; Frogs can live on land and in fresh water
2. What is the zoological name of common species of frog in India?
A; Rana tigrina
3. How is the body temperature of frog?
A; The body temperature of frog varies with environmental temperature
4. Why frogs are called poikilothermic or coldblooded?
A; Their body temperature changes with environmental temperature.
5. What is camouflage?
A; Merging the colour of the body with the background colour
6. What is protective coloration?
A; It is a process in which the animal can change its skin colour according to the colour of the background.
7. Why frogs show protective coloration?
A; so that they can remain unnoticed by their enemies
8. At what time of year frogs are not seen?
A; During peak of summer and peak winter.
9. Why frogs are not seen during peak winter and summer seasons?
A; During this time frogs remain buried deep inside a burrow to escape unfavorable temperature.
10. What is Aestivation? Why do frogs undergo aestivation?
A; It is also called summer sleep. When the environmental temperature is high frog buries inside a burrow
and sleep to escape high temperatures. During this time, it carries out its metabolic activities at very low
level.
11. What is hibernation?
A; It is also called winter sleep. When temperature is extremely low frog lies buried deep inside a burrow to
protect itself from unfavorable temperature.
12. How do frogs survive Aestivation or hibernation?
A; 1. During this time they sleep inside burrows
2. They depend upon reserve food stored in fat bodies
3. Breath through skin only
4. Excrete semi solid urine
13. Why the skin of frog is slippery?
A; Due to mucus glands
1. It protects skin from bacteria
2. Reduces friction between skin and water during movement
3. Retain moisture for cutaneous respiration.
14. Why the skin of frog is always maintained in moist condition?
A; To facilitate cutaneous respiration.
15. What is the skin color of frog?
A; Olive green with dark spots on the dorsal side and pale yellow coloured on the ventral side.
16. Does frog drink water?
A; No. it absorbs water through skin.
17. What is the function of nictitating membrane in frog?
A; It protects eye ball when the frog is in water.
Keeps the eye ball free of dust on land
18. Mention the no. digits in the forelimbs and hind limbs respectively?
A; Four in each fore limb and five in each hind limb. Total 8+10=18
19. How frog receives sound vibrations?
A; through the tympanic membrane located below and behind eye balls.
20. Name the methods of locomotion in frog?
A; 1. Swimming in water
2. leaping and walking on land
20. Mention the two sexually dimorphic structures of male frog?
A; 1. Vocal sacs on either side of lower jaw
2. copulatory pad on the first digit of fore limb
21. Name the sound producing organ of frogs?
A; Larynx
22. Name the permanent sexually dimorphic character of male frog?
A; Vocal sacs
23. Name the seasonally appearing sexual dimorphic structure of male frog?
A; copulatory pad
24. Name the sound amplifying organs of frogs?
A; vocal sacs
25. Why the alimentary canal of frog is short?
A; As it is a carnivorous animal.
26. What is the short tube-like structure of alimentary canal?
A; Oesophagus
27. How rectum of frog opens out?
A; Through cloaca
28. Name the food capturing organ of frog?
A; Muscular tongue.
29. Name the digestive juices received by duodenum?
A; Bile juice and pancreatic juice
30. Name the duct through which pancreatic and bile juices reach duodenum?
A; Common bile duct
31. Name the finger like folds that are found in the inner wall of intestine?
A; Villi and micro villi.
31. Name the respiratory organ of frog in water?
A; skin
32. Name the respiratory organs of frog on land?
A; Lungs, buccal cavity and skin
33. Name the respiratory organ of frog during aestivation and hibernation?
A; Skin
34. 1. short tube esophagus
2. Bilobed structure tongue
3. Finger like folds villi and microvilli
4. Pink colored sacs lungs
5. Triangular structure sinus venosus
6. Dark Red bean like kidneys
7. Yellowish ovoid Testis
35 Final digestion in frog occurs in?
A; Intestine.
36. The digestive juice stored in gall bladder is secreted by?
A; Liver.
37. Mention the three divisions of blood vascular system?
A; Blood, heart and blood vessels
38. Mention the parts of lymphatic system?
A; Lymph, Lymph channels and Lymph nodes.
39. Name the sac like structure present on the ventral side of heart?
A; Conus arteriosus
41. Name the triangular structure on the dorsal side of heart?
A; sinus venosus.
42. Name the special venous connection between liver and intestine?
A; Hepatic portal system
43. Name the special venous system between kidneys and lower part of the body?
A; Renal portal system.
44. What is the difference between blood and lymph?
A; Lymph is without few proteins and RBC.
[Link] BLOOD LYMPH
1. Red in colour colorless
2. Flows from heart to organs Flows from heart to organs only
And organs to heart
3. RBC present absent
4. All plasma proteins present Few proteins present
45. Structural and functional units of kidney?
A; Uriniferous tubules or Nephrons
46. On which side of rectum, urinary bladder is present in frog?
A; Ventral side
47. What is the position of rectum and urinary bladder in relation to each other?
A; Rectum dorsal to urinary bladder; urinary bladder is ventral to Rectum.
48. Location of kidneys in the body cavity of frog?
A; A little Posterior in the body cavity.
49. which frog do not have urinogenital duct?
A; female frog
50. Why the ureters of male frog are also called urinogenital duct?
A; They carry both urine and spermatozoa to outside of the body.
51. Why frog is described as ureotelic?
A; It excretes urea as chief nitrogenous waste
52. Name the two divisions of central nervous system?
A; 1. Brain
2. spinal cord
53. Name the two divisions of autonomic nervous system?
A; 1. Sympathetic nervous system
2. Para sympathetic nervous system
54. How many cranial nerves are present in frog?
A; 10 pairs
55. Mention the divisions of frog brain?
A; 1. Fore brain
2. Mid brain
3. Hind brain
56. Name the unpaired part of fore brain of frog?
A; Diencephalon
57. How many optic lobes are present in frog?
A; Two
58 Name the optic lobes of frog?
A; Corpora bigemina
58. Mention the parts of hind brain of frog?
A; Cerebellum and medulla oblongata
59. Name the opening through which medulla oblongata comes out of cranium?
A; foramen magnum
60. Name the well-organized sense organs of frog?
A; Eyes and internal ear
61. Name the sense organs which are cell aggregations?
A; sense organs of 1. Touch -sensory papillae
2. smell -nasal epithelium
3. taste -taste buds
62. Mention two functions of ear of frog?
A; Hearing and balancing or equilibrium of the body
64. Name the yellowish ovoid structures of frog?
A; Testes
65. which layer attach testis to kidneys?
A; Mesorchium
66. No. of vasa efferentia of male frog in each testis?
A; 10-12
67. Mention the sequence of movement of food in frog?
A; Mouth---Buccal cavity----esophagus----stomach----Duodenum----ileum----Rectum
68. Mention the sequence of flow of blood from organs to organs?
Organs---vena cava---sinus venosus-----right atrium----Ventricle----Conus arteriosus----Aortic arches----Organs
69. Mention the flow of sperms in frog?
Testis---Vasa efferentia---Bidders canal----ureter----cloaca---cloacal aperture
70. Mention the sequence of parts in brain?
A; Olfactory lobes----Cerebral hemispheres----Diencephalon-----Optic lobes----Cerebellum--Medulla blongata
71. Structures connected by Vasa efferentia in male frog?
A; Testis and Bidder’s canal
72. Which structures in female frog stores eggs temporarily?
A; Ovi sac
73. Mention the location of urinary bladder in frog?
A; Ventral side of rectum
74. Gonads that have no functional connection with kidneys in frog are?
A; Ovaries
75. Types of blood circulation in Frog?
A; Incomplete double circulation
76. Number of openings found in the heart of Frog?
A; Four
77. Number of openings associated with sinus venosus in Frog?
A: Four
78. Ventral and dorsal structures associated with Right atrium of Frog?
A; Dorsal; Sinus venosus
Ventral; Conus arteriosus
79. How many openings in the heart of Frog are guarded by valves? what are they?
A; Three openings. 1. Right atrio-ventricular aperture.2 Left atrio-ventricular aperture. 3. Opening between
Ventricle and conus arteriosus.
80. How many openings in the heart of frog not guarded by valves? What are they?
A; Two openings.
1. Opening of common pulmonary vein into left artium
2. Opening of sinus venosus into right atrium
81. Which blood vessels bring deoxygenated blood into sinus venosus from head of frog?
A; Two pre caval veins
82. Which blood vessel bring deoxygenated blood from the body lower to heart in Frog?
A; Post caval vein
83. Which blood vessel carry blood from intestine to liver in Frog?
A; Hepatic portal system
84. Which blood vessel carries blood from legs to kidneys in Frog?
A; Renal portal system
85. Type of circulation in the body of Frog?
A; incomplete double circulation.
86. Vertical partition between two atria in Frog?
A; inter atrial septum
87. Transverse partition between atria and ventricle in frog?
A; Atrio- ventricular septum
88. Name the digestive juices that enter into duodenum?
A; Bil juice from Gall bladder, Pancreatic juice from Pancreas
89. Dark red, bean shaped structures of Frog?
A; kidneys
90. Number of ova released by female frog at a time?
A; 2500-3000 eggs
91. Which gonads in Frog have no functional connection with excretory system?
A; Female Frog
92. What are the three divisions in the nervous system of Frog?
A; 1). Central nervous system
2). Peripheral nervous system
3). Autonomic nervous system