Reptiles

Question 1

Reptiles typically have bodies covered with _____.

Answer 1

Dry scales

Question 2

Extant and living reptiles are placed in _____ orders.

Answer 2

4

Question 3

Orders of reptiles

Answer 3

Chelonia or Testudinata
Rhyncocephalia
Squamata
Crocodilia

Question 4

What species belongs to the order Chelonia or Testudinata?

Answer 4

Turtles

Question 5

What species belongs to the order Rhyncocephalia?

Answer 5

Tuatara

Question 6

What species belongs to the order Squamata?

Answer 6

Lizards and snakes

Question 7

What species belong to the order Crocodilia?

Answer 7

Crocodiles and alligators

Question 8

Suborder where lizards belong

Answer 8

Lacertilia or Sauria

Question 9

Suborder where snakes belong

Answer 9

Serpentes or Ophidia

Question 10

Is represented by a single species, the tuatara, which is only found in New Zealand

Answer 10

Order Rhyncocephalia

Question 11

The reptilian skull which shows greater ossification than that of amphibians is referred to as _____ when without any special temporal openings.

Answer 11

Anapsid

Question 12

The reptilian skull which shows greater ossification than that of amphibians is referred to as _____ when with a single supratemporal fenestra or opening on either side of the skull.

Answer 12

Parapsid

Question 13

The reptilian skull which shows greater ossification than that of amphibians is referred to as _____ when with a single infratemporal opening on either side of the skull.

Answer 13

Snyapsid

Question 14

The reptilian skull which shows greater ossification than that of amphibians is referred to as _____ when both supra- and infratemporal openings on either side of the skull.

Answer 14

Diapsid

Question 15

Part of the reptile that bears the eyes, nostrils, and mouth.

Answer 15

Head

Question 16

Part of the head that is absent in snakes.

Answer 16

External ear

Question 17

The eyes of snakes are covered with a _____.

Answer 17

Transparent plate or cap

Question 18

Teeth are absent in _____.

Answer 18

Chelonians

Question 19

Instead of teeth, chelonians have _____ to bite and chew their food.

Answer 19

Beaks

Question 20

According to attachment, teeth are _____ when encased in a socket.

Answer 20

Thecodont

Question 21

According to attachment, teeth are _____ when attached to the surface of the jaw rather than being encased in a socket.

Answer 21

Acrodont

Question 22

According to attachment, teeth are _____ when tooth rests on a ledge on the inner side of the jaw and is attached on the side as well as the base.

Answer 22

Pleurodont

Question 23

Extrusible copulatory organs in male lizards and snakes.

Answer 23

Hemipenes

Question 24

In lizards, the tail is broken off but is soon replaced by _____.

Answer 24

Regeneration

Question 25

2 types of scales in reptiles

Answer 25

Dermal and epidermal

Question 26

Permanent plates embedded in the skin and retained for life.

Answer 26

Dermal scales

Question 27

Superficial scales, shed periodically in squamates.

Answer 27

Epidermal scalesP

Question 28

Process of shedding of epidermal scales in squamates

Answer 28

Ecdysis

Question 29

Dorsal shell

Answer 29

Carapace

Question 30

Ventral shell

Answer 30

Plastron

Question 31

True or False. The epidermal scales of chelonians and crocodilians are not regularly shed but gradually wear off and replaced.

Answer 31

True

Question 32

Located on the margin of the carapace

Answer 32

Marginals

Question 33

Most anterior and median marginal plate

Answer 33

Nuchal

Question 34

2 most posterior marginal plates

Answer 34

Pygals

Question 35

From the middle row of plates along the median antero-posterior line of the carapce

Answer 35

Vertebrals

Question 36

Form a single antero-posterior row of plates between the vertebrals and the marginals on each side

Answer 36

Costals or laterals