Class 11 Biology Chapter 1 The Living World Quiz 63 (25 MCQs)

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1. What is the idea developed by Charles Lyell stating that the geologic processes that shaped Earth in the past continue to operate today?
2. Which biome, because of its climate, has the largest number of species of plants and animals?
3. Energy enters most ecosystems as .....
4. Related genera belong to
5. No two species can occupy the same niche
6. What do free living bacteria in the soil do?
7. In which of the following regions would you expect to find photosynthetic organisms?
8. Biosystematics aims at
9. ..... is not the unit of taxonomic category
10. The elephant is an example of a .....
11. Why reproduction is not considered as defining property of livings?
12. Another characteristics and 2nd defining property of life
13. Group of organisms that closely resemble each other and freely interbreed in nature, constitute a-
14. What do you call the special features that help plants and animals survive in a particular region?
15. The amount of primary productivity generated by all producers in a given ecosystem is called .....
16. First species to populate an area during primary succession
17. Consider the following food chain:Algae > Mayfly > Minnow > TroutIn a polluted ecosystem, which organism would likely have the HIGHEST level of toxic chemicals in its body?
18. Systematics refers to the study of
19. Evolution is the change of populations of organisms over time; natural selection is the mechanism by which evolution occurs.
20. Hybridization is the process of crossing 2 individuals with very different traits to get a "better" offspring
21. Grouping of plants helps:
22. If gross primary productivity in a wetland is 3 kg C/m$^{2}$/year and respiration is 1.5 kg C/m$^{2}$/year, what is the net Primary Productivity of the wetland?
23. Vermiform appendix is a part of
24. Assertion:Consciousness is considered as the defining property of living organisms.Reason:All organisms, from the prokaryotes to the most complex eukaryotes can sense and respond to environmental stimuli.
25. Invasive species grow quickly due to the lack of predators, this leads to a decline or extinction of the native population. True or false?