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BIOLOGY ¾Ö•ÖÏ Sub : Biology

Chapter : Living World

For NEET - 2021
01. Twin characteristics of growth are 07. Growth and reproduction are synonymous in
1) Increase in mass 2) Increase in number 1) Unicellular organisms 2) Multicellular organisms
3) More than one correct 4) Reproduction and replication 3) Protists and monerans 4) Animals only
02. Growth in plants and animals ___ respectively 08. Growth and reproduction are mutually exclusive events in
1) Continues throughout life span, upto certain age 1) Unicellular organisms 2) Multicellular and higher organisms
2) Indeterminate, determinate 3) Bacteria only 4) More than one correct option
3) Intrinsic, extrinsic 09. Match the pair
4) More than 1 correct Column-I Column-II
03. Boulders exhibit ____ growth
a) Fungi i) Asexual spores
1) Intrinsic 2) Extrinsic
b) Planaria ii) Fragmentation
3) Indeterminate 4) Determinate
c) Protonema of mosses iii) Budding
04. How does growth occur in non-living objects?
d) Yeast iv) True regeneration
1) Increase in size of atoms
1) a-i, b-ii, c-iii, d-iv 2) a-i, b-iv, c-ii, d-iii
2) Increase in number of atoms
3) a-ii, b-iv, c-iii, d-i 4) a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i
3) By accumulation of material on surface
10. Exceptions to reproduction are
4) Internal increase in molecular size.
1) Mule 2) Worker bee
05. Identify the mismatch
3) Infertile human couples 4) All of the above
1) Fungi - Asexual spores
11. ____________ organism never grow
2) Flatworm - Regeneration
1) Unicellular 2) Multicellular
3) Yeast - Fragmentation
4) Hydra - Budding 3) Dead 4) Live
06. Identify the odd one out 12. Metabolism can be best defined as
1) Fungi, yeast, hydra 1) Anabolism or catabolism
2) Mammals, aves, pisces 2) Sum total of all the chemical reactions occuring in our body
3) Mule, Infertlie human worker bee, couples 3) Synthesis or degradation
4) None of the above 4) To make up and to break up
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13. An isolated metabolic reaction(s) outside the body of an organism, 21. The first step in taxonomy is

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performed in a test tube is 1) Characterization 2) Identification
1) Neither living nor non-living 2) Purely non-living 3) Classification 4) Description
3) Purely living 4) Not a kind of reaction at all 22. ICBN stands for
14. Identify the odd one out of the following 1) International code for botanical nomenclature
1) Metabolism 2) Cellular organization 2) International code of botanical nomenclature
3) Growth 4) Consiousness 3) International code for biological nomenclature
15. Patients lying in coma in hospitals virtually supported by machines 4) Indian committe for botanical names
which replace 23. Binomial nomenclature consists of
1) Brain and heart 2) Liver and kidney 1) Name of genus, name of species
3) Lungs and heart 4) Spinal cord and Intestine 2) Generic name, specific epithet
16. Patient in coma 3) Name of species, name of author
1) Is brain dead 4) More than one correct option
2) Has no self consciousness 24. Biological names are generally in
3) Is partially live and partially dead 1) Greek 2) Latin
4) More than one correct 3) Italics 4) Sanskrit
17. Plant responds to external factors like 25. When handwritten, biological names are
1) Light, water, temperature, pollutants 1) Underlined 2) Not underlined
2) Abiotic and biotic factors 3) Underlined separately 4) Italicised
3) Hormones only 26. In Magnifera indica Linn,Linn indicates
4) Sense sunlight only 1) That species was first described by linnaeus
18. ________ is the only organism aware of their surroundings 2) Linnaeus is the author of the book
1) Prokaryotes 2) Eukaryotes 3) Linnaeus is father of Botany
3) All multicellulars 4) Human 4) None of the above
19. The number of species of that are known and described ranges between 27. Alsatians mean
1) 1.7 - 1.8 million 2) Billions 1) Cat breed 2) Dog breed
3) 1.2 - 1.5 million 4) In thousands 3) Cats and dogs 4) Carnivorous animals
20. Standardizing the naming of living organism such that a particular 28. The process in which all living organisms can be classified into different
organism is known by the same name all over the world is called taxa is called
1) Universal system 2) Identification 1) Classification 2) Taxonomy
3) Classification 4) Nomenclature 2 3) Nomenclature 4) Morphology
29. The title of the publication of Linnaeus is 36. Which of the following is a defining characteristic of living organisms?

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1) Philosophica botanique 2) Origin of species 1) Growth 2) Reproduction
3) Systema naturae 4) Gene X 3) Ability to make sound 4) Response to external stimuli
30. Suffix used for units of classification of plants for ‘family’ is 37. Taxonamy + Relationship between organisms
1) –Ae 2) –Aceae 1) Systematics 2) Nomenclature
3) Cytotaxonomy 4) Classification
3) –Onae 4) –Ales
38. Order and phylum of human are respectively
31. As we go from species to kingdom in taxonomic hierarch, the number
of common characters 1) Hominidae, mammalia 2) Hominidae, chordata
1) Will increase 2) Will decrease 3) Primata, mammalia 4) Primata, chordata
39. Genus of all big cats is
3) Remain same 4) May increase or decrease
1) Felis 2) Panthera
32. The term ‘Systematics’ refers to
3) Musca 4) Mangifera
1) Identification and study of organs
40. Family of Triticum aestivum is
2) Preservation of plants
1) Anacardiaceae 2) Sapindales
3) Study habitat of organisms
3) Poaceae 4) Poales
4) Diversity of kinds of organisms and their relationship 41. Which one of the following category belongs to a different taxon?
33. Genus is 1) Diptera 2) Primata
1) A collection of plants or animals 3) Muscidae 4) Poales
2) An invididual plant or animal 42. Biological name of housefly is
3) A taxonomic category of closely related species of plants or animals 1) Lepisma domestica 2) Pheretima posthuma
4) None of these 3) Periplaneta americana 4) Musca domestica
34. The taxonomic unit ‘Phylum’ in the classification of animals is 43. Diptera is the ________ of housefly
equivalent to which hierarchial level in plant classification? 1) Order 2) Genus
1) Division 2) Family 3) Phylum 4) Class
3) Genus 4) Order 44. What is correct regarding binomial nomenclature?
35. Botanical gardens and zoological parks 1) First name is specific epithet 2) Second name is generic name
1) Collection of endemic living species only 3) Developed by John Ray 4) None of the above
2) Collection of exotic living species only 45. Which of the following is not the characteristic feature of all form of
life?
3) Collection of local plants and animals
1) Growth 2) Reproduction
4) More than one correct option
3 3) Motility 4) None of these
46. In taxonomic hierarchy, what is correct?

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1) Related genera are placed in same family Answer Key
2) Smallest taxon is class 3 3 2 2 3
1 11 21 31 41
3) Larget taxon is phylum 4 2 1 4 4
2 12 22 32 42
4) Class if basic unit of classification
3 2 13 1 23 4 33 3 43 1
47. Identify the non-taxon rank
4 3 14 3 24 2 34 1 44 4
1) Phylum 2) Species
5 3 15 3 25 3 35 4 45 3
3) Variety 4) Class
6 3 16 4 26 1 36 4 46 1
48. Identify mismatch
7 1 17 1 27 2 37 1 47 3
1) Homo-genus 2) Felidae - Family
8 2 18 4 28 2 38 4 48 3
3) Solanaceae-order 4) Mammalia - Class
9 2 19 1 29 3 39 2 49 3
49. Which gives actual account of habitat and distribution of plants of a
10 4 20 4 30 2 40 3 50 2
given area?
1) Monographs 2) Manuals
3) Flora 4) Catalogue
50. Solanum and petunia belong to same family
1) Convolvulaceae 2) Solanaceae
3) Anacardiaceae 4) Poaceae