JIPMER 2010
- Exam
- JIPMER
- Year
- 2010
- Subject
- Botany
- Chapter
- The Living World
JIPMER 2010 · Botany · The Living World
Ruminants belong to order
Ruminants belong to order
Options
- AProboscida
- BArtiodactyla
- CMarsupials
- DEdentata
Correct answer
B. Artiodactyla
Step-by-step solution
Ruminants have the habit of chewing the cud. Stomach of ruminants have four parts, ie, rumen, reticulum, omassum and abomassum. They belong to order-Artiodactyla of class-Mammalia, eg, cow, sheep, goat.
Elephants belong to order-Proboscidea of class-Mammalia.
Marsupials are the members of subclassMetatheria, in which a pouch marsupium is present for keeping and nourishing the young ones, eg, kangaroo.