NEET-Biology-1-Diversity of the living world-1

Q:1: The number and types of organisms present on earth; this refers to as?
Answer : Biodiversity

Q:2: For plants, scientific names are based on agreed principles and criteria, which are provided by?
Answer : ICBN

Q:3: Both the words in a biological name,when hand written, are separately underlined,or printed in italics to indicate .
Answer : The Latin origin

Q:4: The biggest spin off of taxonomic studies was the recognition of sharing of similarities among living organisms both A and B.
Answer :A-Horizontally,B- Vertically

Q:5: What is the most obvious and technically complicated feature of all living organisms?
Answer : Consciousness

Q:6: The patient is brain-dead and has no self-consciousness. Such patients are never come back to normal life. They are considered living or non- living.
Answer : Living

Q:7: A affects reproduction in seasonal breeders, both plants and animals.
Answer : A-Photo period

Q:8: Early man could easily perceive the difference between inanimate matter and living organisms. (True/False)
Answer : True

Q:9: In majority of higher animals and plants,growth and reproduction are mutually exclusive events. (True/False)
Answer : True

Q:10: What is the common method for multiplication among the fungi, filamentous algae and protonema of mosses?
Answer : Fragmentation

Q:11: Reproduction cannot be taken as defining characteristics of living organisms. Why?
Answer : There are many organisms those cannot reproduce.

Q:12: For unicellular organisms like bacteria, unicellular algae and Amoeba, A is synonymous with B.
Answer :A-Reproduction,B- Growth

Q:13: Increase in mass and increase in number of individuals are twin characteristics of which character of living organisms?
Answer : Growth

Q:14: Growth, reproduction, ability to sense environment are the features of living organisms.(True/False)
Answer : True

Q:15: Who was the Darwin of 20th century?
Answer : E. Mayr

Q:16: Growth cannot be taken as defining characteristic of living organisms. Why?
Answer : Because non-living objects also grow by accumulation of materials on surface.

Q:17: Properties of tissues are not present in the constituent cells but arise as a result of interactions among the constituent cells.(True/False)
Answer : True

Q:18: The sum total of all chemical reactions occurring in a living body is called?
Answer : Metabolism

Q:19: In Binomial nomenclature, each name has two components the A and the B.
Answer :A-Generic name,B- Specific epithet

Q:20: What is the full form of ICBN?
Answer : International Code of Botanical Nomenclature

Q:21: How many species are known and described till now?
Answer : 1.7-1.8 million

Q:22: Biological names are generally in ‗A‘ language and written in B.
Answer : A-Latin, B-Italics

Q:23: All living organisms can be classified into different taxa on the basisof characteristics, this process is called?
Answer : Classification

Q:24: According to binomial system,how the first letter of first word and first letter of second word in name of an organism are written respectively?
Answer : Capital and small

Q:25: What is Alsatians?
Answer : A variety of Dog species or breed.