Types of Movement in Animals

IMPORTANT

Types of Movement in Animals: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Flagellar Movement, Locomotion and Movement, Non-muscular Movements, Muscular Movements, Movements in Invertebrates, Movement in Hydra, Movements in Land Vertebrates, etc.

Important Questions on Types of Movement in Animals

MEDIUM
IMPORTANT

Write the types of locomotion found in snakes?

EASY
IMPORTANT

The transitional tetrapods as having an “L-shaped” humerus that provided some functional benefit for moving on land.

EASY
IMPORTANT

One single character that helped vertebrates in colonising the land was evolution of AMNIOTIC EGG by early reptilians.

EASY
IMPORTANT

_____ powerful respiratory system and locomotion and an evolved nervous system gave vertebrates the ability to colonise land.

EASY
IMPORTANT

Emergent aquatic vertebrates may be unable to produce effective overland movement because _____.

EASY
IMPORTANT

_____ any of several forms of animal movement such as walking and running, jumping (saltation), and crawling.

EASY
IMPORTANT

Which among the following not a non-muscular movement?

EASY
IMPORTANT

Non-muscular movement involves muscle contraction as a result of sliding of myofilaments.

EASY
IMPORTANT

Amoeboid movement, as found in amoeba, occurs as pseudopodia are formed where endoplasm flows forward and changes into _____.

EASY
IMPORTANT

Define non-muscular movements.

EASY
IMPORTANT

Which of the following is the locomotory organ in Hydra?

EASY
IMPORTANT

Oriented locomotor movement of an organism towards or away from light source is called

MEDIUM
IMPORTANT

What do you mean by nonmuscular movements? Give examples.

EASY
IMPORTANT

For the elbow joint, triceps is

EASY
IMPORTANT

When body part moves towards the median axis, it is called

EASY
IMPORTANT

The muscle which on contraction rotates the forearm to make palm face upward and forward is

MEDIUM
IMPORTANT

The reason for the pendular movement of cilia is 

EASY
IMPORTANT

Macrophages and leucocytes exhibit:

EASY
IMPORTANT

Which type of movement is shown by macrophages?

EASY
IMPORTANT

Which cells in our body exhibit amoeboid movement?