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MCQs OF THE LIVING WORLD CLASS 11
1. Which one of the following is not a correct statement?
A. A museum has a collection of photographs of plants and animals.
B. The key is a taxonomic aid for identification of specimens.
C. Herbarium houses dried, pressed and preserved plants specimens.
D. Botanical gardens have a collection of living plants for reference.
Q.2. The common characteristics between tomato and potato will be maximum at the level of their ……………… .
A. Family
B. Order
C. Division
D. Genus
Q.3. Which one of the following organisms is scientifically correctly named, correctly printed according to the International Rules of Nomenclature and correctly described?
A. Musca domestica – the house lizard, a reptile
B. Plasmodium falciparum – a protozoan pathogen causing the most serious type of malaria.
C. Felis Tigris – the Indian tiger, well protected in Gir forests.
D. E.coli – full name Entamoeba coli, a commonly occurring bacterium in the human intestine.
Q.4. Which one of the following animals is correctly matched with its particular taxonomic category?
A. tiger – Tigris, species
B. cuttlefish – Mollusca, class
C. humans – primate, family
D. housefly – Musca, order
Q.5. Which one of the following aspects is an exclusive characteristic of living things?
A. Isolated metabolic reactions in vitro
B. Increase in mass from inside body
C. perception of events happening in the environment and their memory
D. the increase in mass by the accumulation of material both on the surface as well as internally
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Q.6. ICBN stands for ………………….. .
A. International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
B. International Congress of Biological names
C. Indian code for Botanical Nomenclature
D. Indian Congress of Biological Names
Q.7. The living Organisms can be unexceptionally distinguished from the non-living things on the basis of their ability for ……………. .
A. Interaction with the environment and progressive evolution
B. Reproduction
C. Growth and movement
D. Responsiveness to touch
Q.8. One of the most important functions of botanical gardens is that …………… .
A. They provide a beautiful area for recreation
B. One can observe tropical plants there
C. They allow ex-situ conservation of germplasm
D. They provide the natural habitat for wildlife
Q.9. Species are considered as …………….. .
A. Real basic unit of classification
B. The lowest units of classification
C. Artificial concept of human mind which cannot be defined in absolute terms
D. Real units of classification devised by taxonomists
Q.10. Biosystematics aims at …………………. .
A. The classification of organisms based on broad morphological characters
B. Delimiting various taxa of organisms and establishing their relationships
C. The classification of organisms based on their evolutionary history and establishing their phylogeny on the totality of various parameters from all fields of studies
D. Identification and arrangements of organism on the basis of their cytological characteristics
ANSWERS:
- A
- A
- B
- A
- C
- A
- D
- C
- A
- C
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