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Which of the following is not a result of cell division?
1. Growth
2. Repair
3. Metabolism
4.  Reproduction

Mark the incorrect pair.
1.  Hydra – Budding
2.  Flatworm – Regeneration
3.  Amoeba – Fragmentation
4.  Yeast – Budding

Which of the following is incorrect for reproduction?
1. Unicellular organisms reproduce by cell division
2. Reproduction is a characteristic of all living organisms
3. In unicellular organisms, reproduction and growth are linked together
4. Non-living objects are incapable of reproducing

Mark the incorrect statement with respect to metabolism.
1. Microbes exhibit the metabolism
2. It is the property of all living forms
3. The metabolic reactions can be demonstrated in-vitro
4. It is not a defining feature of life forms

Non-living objects exhibit/show
1. Property of self-replication
2. Evolution
3. Self-regulating interactive systems
4. Reversible growth

Local names of various plants and animals
1. Help in recognizing organisms worldwide
2. Are used universally
3. Are specific and distinct names
4. Vary from place to place

Which of the following is incorrect with respect to Binomial nomenclature?
1. Biological names are generally in Latin
2. The first word in a biological name represents the genus
3. Biological names are printed in italics
4. The first word of the genus starts with a small letter

What do A, B and C represent in the given scientific name respectively?
      Mangifera                  indica                    Linn
           C                            B                         A
1. Generic name, specific name and author’s name
2. Specific name, generic name and author’s name
3. Author’s name, specific name and generic name
4. Generic name, author’s name and specific name

Which of the following is incorrect with respect to Species?
1. A group of individual organisms with fundamental similarities
2. Two different species breed together to produce fertile offsprings
3. Human beings belong to the species sapiens
4. Panthera has many specific epithet as tigris, leo and pardus

Taxonomy deals with
1. Development of zoological parks
2. Study of kinds and diversity of microorganisms only
3. Evolutionary relationships between organisms
4. Classification of diverse organisms in different taxa

Which of the following is a class?
1. Mammalia
2. Sapindales
3. Primate
4. Poales

In taxonomic hierarchy, which of the following group of taxa will have less number of similarities as compared to other?
1. Solanaceae, Convolvulaceae and Poaceae
2. Polymoniales, Poales and Sapindales
3. Solanum, Petunia and Atropa
4. Leopard, tiger and lion

Key is
1. A form of herbaria
2. A type of educational institute
3. A taxonomical aid used for identifying various organisms
4. Taxonomic category

Reproduction is synonymous with growth in
1. Most of the fungi and Planaria
2. Desmids, diatoms and protozoans
3. Cyanobacteria, fungi and mosses
4. Mosses, algae and hydra

Carolus Linnaeus is the father of taxonomy because of one of his contributions
1. Genera Plantarum
2. Binomial nomenclature
3. Described nearly ten thousand plants and animal species
4. Die Naturlichen Pflanzen Familien

Which one of the following criteria is/are essential and form the basis of modern taxonomic studies?
1. Ecological information of organisms
2. Development process
3. External and internal structure
4. All of these

Given organisms belongs to how many genera?
Wheat, Brinjal, Potato, Lion, Dog, Tiger
1. Three
2. Two
3. Four
4. Five

A genus having many species is known as
1. Polytypic
2. Monotypic
3. Polygamic
4. Both (1) & (3)

Which one of the following is not a correct statement?
1. Botanical gardens have collection of living plants for reference
2. A museum has collection of photographs of plants and animals
3. Key is a taxonomic aid for identification of specimens
4. Herbarium houses dried, pressed and preserved plant specimens

Maximum nutritional diversity is found in the group
1. Plantae
2. Fungi
3. Animalia
4. Monera

Which one of the following aspects is an exclusive characteristic of living things?
1. Perception of events happening in the environment and their memory
2. Increase in mass by accumulation of material both on surface as well as internally
3. Isolated metabolic reactions occur in-vitro
4. Increase in mass from inside only

ICBN stands for 
1. Indian Code of Botanical Nomenclature
2. Indian Congress of Biological Names
3. International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
4. International Congress of Biological Names

Two plants can be conclusively said to belong to the same species if they:
1. Have same number of chromosomes
2. Can reproduce freely with each other and form seeds
3. Have more than 90 per cent similar genes
4. Look similar and possess identical secondary metabolites

Biosystematics aims at
1. The classification of organisms based on broad morphological characters
2. Delimiting various taxa of organisms and establishing their relationships
3. The classification of organisms based on their evolutionary history and establishing their phylogeny on
the totality of various parameters from all fields of studies
4. Identification and arrangement of organisms on the basis of their cytological characteristics

Taxonomic hierarchy refers to

‘Taxon’ is the unit of
1. Order
2. Taxonomy
3. Species
4. Genus

The closely related morphologically similar sympatric populations, but reproductively isolated, are designated as
1. Clones
2. Sibling species
3. Clines
4. Demes

Which of the following is least general in characters as compared to genera?
1. Species
2. Division
3. Class
4. Family

Which of the following is not true for a species?
1. Members of a species can interbreed
2. Gene flow does not occur between the populations of a species
3. Each species is reproductively isolated from every other species
4. Variations occur among members of a species

One of the most important function of botanical gardens is that
(1) They provide a beautiful area for recreation
(2) One can observe tropical plants there
(3) They allow ex-situ conservation of germplasm
(4) They provide the natural habitat for wildlife