The Living World

Q1. If the diploid number of a flowering plant is 36. What would be the chromosomes number in its
endosperm?

1. 18
2. 54
3. 72
4. 36

Q2. Polemoniales is tbe order which includes plant famllies Solanaceae and:

1. Brrssicrceae.
2. Fabrceae.
3. Convolvulaceae.
4. Lilliaceae.

Q3. Glycogen is a polymer of:

1. Galactose.
2. Glucose.
3. Fructose.
4. Sucrose.

Q4. Choose correct scientific name of mango:

1. Mangifera indica Hook.
2. Mangifera indica L.
3. Mangifera Indica.
4. Mangifera indica Linn.

Q5. Which of the following shows maximum diversity?

1. Plantas.
2. Animalia.
3. Monerans.
4. Protistans.

Q6. First life on earth was:

1. Cyanobacteria.
2. Chemoheterotrophs.
3. Autotrophs.
4. Photoautotrophs.

Q7. Botanical gardens and zoological parks have:

1. Collection of endemic living species only.
2. Collection of exotic living species only.
3. Collection of endemic and exotic living species.
4. Collection of only local plants and animals.

Q8. Kingdom pantea includes all multicellular eukaryotic, photosynthetic, organism. In traditional plant
kingdom divided in two subgroup one is cryptogam, choose the another one:

1. Phanerogamae.
2. Cryptogamae ii.
3. Custogamae.
4. Chemotogmae.

Q9. The ozone layer is found in the:

1. Hydrosphere.
2. Stratosphere.
3. Lithosphere.
4. Troposphere.

Q10. Study of fossils is:

1. Palaeontology.
2. Herpetology.
3. Saurology.
4. Organic evolution.

Q11. Which of the following does not come under taxon?

1. Species.
2. Kingdom.
3. Division.
4. Key.

Q12. The main objective of plant taxonomy is:

1. To provide Latin ‘scientific’ names for every group of plants in the world.
2. To provide a method for identification and nomenclature.
3. To study the world’s flora.
4. All of these.

Q13. Which one of the following aspects is an exclusive characteristic of living things?

1. Increase in mass by accumulation of material both on surface as well as internally.
2. Isolated metabolic reactions occur in vitro.
3. Increase in mass from inside only.
4. Perception of events happening in the environment and their memory.

Q14. Two taxonomic species are distinguished from each other by:

1. Their failure to interbreed.
2. Their ability to exchange gene freely.
3. Their similarity in morphological characters.
4. Discontinuity in a set of correlated characters.

Q15. Keystone species are:

1. Important for ecosystem.
2. Important for plants.
3. Endangered species.
4. Extinct species.

Q16. Employment of hereditary principles in the improvement of human race is:

1. Euthenics.
2. Eugenics.
3. Euphenics.
4. Ethnology.

Q17. According to Oparin, which one of the following was not present in the primitive atmosphere of the
earth?

1. Methane.
2. Oxygen.
3. Hydrogen.
4. Water vapour.

Q18. The ascending or descending arrangement of taxonomic categories is called as:

1. Classification.
2. Taxonomy.
3. Hierarchy.
4. Key.

Q19. Taxonomic studies depends on:

1. Ecological information of organisms.
2. Structure of cell and development process of organisms.
3. External and internal structure of organisms.
4. All of the above.

Q20. Systematics deals with:

1. Nomenclature of new organisms.
2. Evolutionary relationship between organisms.
3. Identification of newly discovered organisms.
4. All of these.

Q21. Species are considered as:

1. Artificial concept of human mind which cannot be defined in absolute terms.
2. The lowest units of classification.
3. Real units of classification devised by taxonomists.
4. Real basic units of classification.

Q22. Gammae are multicellular green structure for vegetative propagation. There are found inside Gemma
cups in:

1. Marchantia thallus.
2. Funaria protanema.
3. Riccia capsule.
4. Fern prothallu.

Q23. The most important feature of all living systems is to:

1. Utilize oxygen to generate energy.
2. Replicate the genetic information.
3. Produce gametes.
4. Utilize solar energy for metabolic activities.

Q24. Which among the following is not associated with a sexual reproduction?

1. Gamete formatlon.
2. Fragmentation.
3. Spore formation.
4. Budding.

Q25. If there was no CO in the earth’s atmosphere the temperature of earth’s surface would be:

1. Higher than the present.
2. Less than the present.
3. The same.
4. Dependent on the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere.

Q26. Which of the following is a defining characteristic of living organisms?

1. Growth.
2. Ability to make sound.
3. Reproduction.
4. Response to external stimuli.

Q27. The term ‘systematics’ refers to:

1. Identification and study of organ systems of plants and animals.
2. Identification and preservation of plants and animals.
3. Diversity of kinds of organisms and their relationship.
4. Study of habitats of organisms and their classification.

Q28. Adenine is:

1. Purine.
2. Pyrimidine.
3. Nucleoside.
4. Nucleotide.

Q29. System of classification that employs numerical data to evaluate similarities and differences is known
as:

1. Chemotaxonomy.
2. Cytotaxonomy.
3. Biosystematics.
4. Phenetics.

Q30. Biological organization starts with:

1. Submicroscopic molecular level.
2. Cellular level.
3. Organismic level.
4. Atomic level.