If the head of cockroach is removed, it may live for few days because
- the cockroach does not have nervous system.
- the head holds a small proportion of a nervous system while the rest is situated along the ventral part of its body.
- the head holds a 1/3rd of a nervous system while the rest is situated along the dorsal part of its body.
- the supra-oesophageal ganglia of the cockroach are situated in ventral part of abdomen.
Answer
(2) the head holds a small proportion of a nervous system while the rest is situated along the ventral part of its body.
Solution
As per NCERT, the nervous system of cockroach consists of a series of fused, segmentally arranged ganglia joined by paired longitudinal connectives on the ventral side.
Three ganglia lie in the thorax and six in the abdomen; the head holds only a bit of the nervous system (supra-oesophageal ganglion, the brain) while the rest lies along the ventral (belly-side) part of the body.
If the head of a cockroach is cut off, it can still live for about a week.
Answer: (2)