Class 11 · Animal Kingdom

Amphibian Characteristics & Life Cycle — NEET Biology

📚 Practice Concept
📖 NCERT Source

As the name indicates (Gr., Amphi: dual, bios, life), amphibians can live in aquatic as well as terrestrial habitats. Most of them have two pairs of limbs. Body is divisible into head and trunk. Tail may be present in some. The amphibian skin is moist (without scales). The eyes have eyelids. A tympanum represents the ear. Alimentary canal, urinary and reproductive tracts open into a common chamber called cloaca which opens to the exterior. Respiration is by gills, lungs and through skin. The heart is three-chambered (two auricles and one ventricle). These are cold-blooded animals. Sexes are separate. Fertilisation is external. They are oviparous and development is indirect.

NCERT Biology · Class 11 · Chapter 4 · Paragraph 52
Practice This Concept
QuestionPractice Question

Assertion (A): The class Amphibia is named to reflect their dual habitat capability. Reason (R): As the name indicates, amphi means dual and bios means life, referring to aquatic and terrestrial habitats.

Through deep analysis of NEET and NTA, 88 of 90 questions from the NEET 2026 paper were matched straight from the MedicNEET Biology question bank.

88/90
of the NEET 2026 Biology paper matched from the MedicNEET question bank

MedicNEET's Biology question bank is built from the same NCERT lines NTA picks repeatedly. Not random MCQs — questions crafted exactly like NTA crafts them.

88 of 90 NEET 2026 Biology questions traced to MedicNEET10,000+ Biology questionsHindi + English
Free to start · Hindi + English · 10,000+ questions · NEET 2026 pattern
Related Concepts from Animal Kingdom
📘Practice all 25 NEET PYQs from Animal Kingdom🔍See full Animal Kingdom PYQ Analysis