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    Class Osteichthyes MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

    Edited By admin | Updated on Sep 18, 2023 18:34 AM | #NEET

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    • Class Osteichthyes - Characteristics Features is considered one of the most asked concept.

    • 15 Questions around this concept.

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    Which one of the following categories of animals is correctly described with no single exception in it?

     Buoyancy in a bony fish is maintained with the help of 

    Match the following columns and select the correct options:

    Column I Column II
    (a) Aptenodytes (i) Flying fox
    (b) Pteropus (ii) Angelfish
    (c) Pterophyllum (iii) Lamprey
    (d) Petromyzon (iv) Penguin

     

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    Class Osteichthyes - Characteristics Features

     

    • These fishes have a bony skeleton.
    • They have a large mouth with movable jaws.
    • Their body is covered with cycloid or ctenoid scales. These scales are impermeable to water. 
    • The gill slits are covered with an operculum.
    • They have a closed circulatory system with two-chambered heart having one atrium and one ventricle.
    • They possess air bladder or swim bladder that maintains the buoyancy. 
    • They have defined lateral line system of sense organs.
    • They are cold - blooded.
    • They are oviparous and perform external fertilization.

    Difference between Chondricthyes and Osteicthyes can be summarised as 

     

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