The Living World: The World Around Us

In this quiz, you will find questions related to the living creatures, plants, and microorganisms that are around us.

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Which among the following best describes the word “Growth” in living organisms?

Increase in mass either due to accumulation or due to changes that body undergoes internally Increase in mass due to internally cell division and increase in number due to replication are twin characteristic of growth All living organisms grow throughout their life Growth is a sufficient characteristic to determine whether an organism is living or non-living

Reproduction in Planaria takes place through ________

Budding Binary Fission Asexual spores Fragmentation

Sexual reproduction results in variation of the progeny from the parents. What do you think are the appropriate reasons?

Since sexual reproduction involves only gene from a single parent which undergoes modifications to produce different traits in the progeny Sexual reproduction involves gene from both the parents which undergoes modifications to produce traits that vary from the parent It is due to variation in the time Parents decide the traits of the progeny and design them accordingly

The action that the environment does on an organism is called ________

Response Stimuli Reflex Reaction

The Phylogenetic system of classification was put forth by

Theophrastus George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker Carolus Linnaeus Adolf Engler and Karl Prantl

National Botanical Research Institute is located in

Shimla Dehradun Howrah Lucknow

Scientific name are drawn form

Latin English Sanskrit Arabic

A rank or level in the hierarchial classification of organisms is a

Taxon Category Key All of these

Which of the following is not a correct hierarchial order?

Phylum, order, family Class, family, genus Class, order, family Family, class, order

Father of Taxonomy is

Linnaeus Aristotle John Ray None of the above

‘Systema Nature’ is a book written by

Linnaeus Charak John Roy De Candole

Metabolism means ________

Division of cells

Expansion of cell

Sum total of all chemical reactions occurring in our body

Production of progeny

Two taxonomic species are distinguished from each other by

Their failure to interbreed

Their ability to exchange gene freely

Their similarity in morphological characters

Discontinuity in a set of correlated characters

Keystone species are

Important for ecosystem

Important for plants

Endangered species

Extinct species

The study of fish culture is called

Ophiology

Herpetology

Ichthyology

Pisciculture

____________ system of classification were based on natural affinities among the organisms

Natural

Artificial

Sexual

Phycogentic

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

Marchantia thallus

Funaria protanema

Riccia capsule

Fern prothallus

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

Phanerogamae

Cryptogamae ii

Custogamae

Chemotogmae

Which of the following is a gametophyte free living structure formed in pteridophytes.

Prothallus

Sporophytes

Microporophylls

Megasporophylls

In which of the following, the diploid sporophytes is the dominant, independent photosynthetic and vascular plant body?

Pteridophytes

Bryophytes