NMAT Biology Base(Living World)

Living organisms are

Steady state is represented by

Homeostasis is maintained by

The essential chemical processes in living organism are

Biological death of a patient means death of tissues of the

In which process under metabolism energy is liberated because of respiration?

Which of the following features can be said to be a true defining feature of living beings without any exception?

The study of biology is concerned with

Living organisms must maintain a constant internal environment.

In catabolic series of reaction, complex molecules are broken down into smaller molecules releasing

Study of form and structure of organism is

The anabolic process of carbohydrate is

Which of the following statement can be related to catabolism?

Which reactions usually release energy that is used to drive chemical reactions.

Which of the following is a catabolic reaction?

In living systems, water is involved as a chemical in

Which one of the following is a catabolic process?

Conversion of polysaccharide to monosaccharide is known as:

The property of responding to a stimulus is known as:

Growth, development and functioning of living body is due to:

An example of destructive metabolism(Catabolism) is

Conversion of glucose to pyruvate is a

Apoplasmic growth is through the formation of

Conversion of Glucose-6-phosphate to Fructose-6-phosphate is a

Living steady state has a self regulatory mechanism called as:

Dark reaction is a

The formation of phosphodiester bonds between two nucleotides can be considered as

Respiration is a

House sparrow can fly for short distances only because of the absence of

Anabolism is

Conversion of acetyl Co-A to fatty acid is a/an

Correlated characters are those which occur

Biological organisation starts with

Conversion of glucose to glucose-6-phosphate can be termed as

Metabolism is

One of the basic characteristics of living organisms which is well-developed in nervous system is

Which one of the following is an anabolic process?

Synthesis is a term that could be used synonymously with

A major regulatory mechanism for multistep reaction is

Gluconeogenesis is a

Formation of nucleotide is a

• Assertion: Smaller the organism higher is the rate of metabolism per gram weight.
• Reason: The heart rate of a six month old baby is much lower than that of an old person.

Which of the following statement is incorrect?

Apoplasmic growth is through the formation of

Homeostasis is maintained by

______ means the diversity of life forms.

The classification system enables us to know

Growth occurs due to synthesis of

Study of form and structure of organism is

Muscle tissue growth : Anabolic process :: ______ : Catabolic process.

Formation of glycogen from glucose is an example of

Biosystematics aims at

The branch of botany concerned with the classification, nomenclature and identification of plants is known as

Systematics is

The science of diversity of organisms is

‘Systema Naturae’ book was written by

Embryophyta includes

Julian Huxley proposed the term.

Aristotle is associated with

• Assertion : Plant taxonomy is known as systematic botany.
• Reason : Taxonomy involves only plant classification

Prokaryotes are

An attribute found in plants but not animals is

In kingdom animalia according to the traditional school of systematic, birds are assigned to a different group from reptiles because

Scientific study of diversity of organisms and their evolutionary relationships is called

‘Law of priority’ is applicable after the year

Throughout the world, official species names are in

Distinction of prokaryota and Eukaryota is mainly based on

Taxonomy is related to

The group ‘Pteropsida’ proposed by Oswald Tippo include

First life on earth was

Morphologically similar but reproductively isolated species are called as

Biological species are kept separate from closely related species inhabiting the same geographical region by reproductive isolating mechanism, which is called as

Which of the following taxonomist described the classification of plant kingdom in the book ‘Families of Flowering plants’?

Principles of binomial nomenclature proposed by Linnaeus are contained in his book

In the book ‘Historia Naturalis’ about 1000 medicinal plants were described, which was written by

‘Law of Priority’ says that the valid name of an organism is

Which of the following two morphologically similar population are intersterile?

Evolutionary history of an organism is known as

Bacteria and yeast are similar to each other in all of the following characteristics, except that

Individuals of same species having non-genetic difference due to environment are called as

Specimen used for original publication by the author is

‘Methodus pantarum nova’ is a famous publication of which one of the following taxonomists?

The science of diversity of organisms is

Which nomenclature system is employed for naming plants

Dolphin was placed amongst mammals by

Classification based on comparison of number of ovaries, stamens present in the flower is called as

The book Genera Plantarum(3 volumes), which contains the classification of seed plants was written by

System of classification proposed by Linnaeus was

Six kingdom classification was suggested by

The evolutionary history of a group of organisms is termed as

In the classification of plants, the term ‘Cladistics’ refers to the

In Bentham and Hooker’s classification, what was positioned in between dicots and monocots?

Sequence of which of the following is used to know the phylogeny?

Who developed the concept of phylogeny?

The basis of phenetic classification is

Practical purpose of taxonomy is to

Most primitive monerans are

Reason of diversity of living being is

According to Bentham and Hooker, total families of real flowering plants are

Great chain of being is

An important advancement in the understanding of phylogenetic relationships was

Typological concept of species was given by

First plant classification was given by

Carolus Linnaeus classified plant kingdom on the basis of

Statistical method is used in _____ type of classification

The three domain system with six kingdom is the latest classification based on

The headquarters of IUCN are at

Phylogeny refers to

The classification of Linnaeus was mainly based on

Number of animals studied by Aristotle was

A school of systematics, that determines the degree of relatedness by analysing primitive and derived characters and constructing cladograms is

Linnaeus proposed an outline of plant classification in

A system of classification in which a large number of traits are considered is

New system of classification of bacteria introduced in ‘Manual of determination bacteriology’, was written by

In Bentham and Hooker classification of plants, the present day orders were referred to them as

Most important criteria used for the present day classification of living organisms is based on

Classification of organisms based on evolutionary as well as genetic relationship is known as

The fundamental and mathematical basis as an aid to the classification of organisms is called

Eichler divided plant kingdom in

Find out the correct sequence in ascending order of hierarchy.

Species is

Which is less general in characters as compared to genus

In the current taxonomic system, families are grouped into

Descending arrangement of categories is known as

In nature, the biologically cohesive unit among the taxa is

Taxa’ differs from ‘taxon ‘ due to

The suffix ‘idae’ refers to

Which is not true for species?

Select the group which shares maximum number of common characters.

Number of obligate categories is

Choose the wrong statement with reference to subspecies.

Taxonomy without phylogeny is similar to bones without ‘flesh” is the statement of

The number of species classified in ‘Species Plantarum’ is

Chemotaxonomy is connected with

‘Karyotaxonomy’ is the modern branch of classification, which is based on

Species are considered as

Arrange the following in ascending order to Linnaean hierarchy

The niche of a species is meant for

The system of giving one name to the individual is called as

Sometimes different authors give different names to one and the same species. In such a situation

If a botanist has to nomenclate a similar species, he will use

Rules regarding the binomial nomenclature are framed by

Common names are

The third name of the trinomial nomenclature is of

‘Oryza sativa’ is the binomial name of the rice plant, the ‘sativa’ stands for

The main drawback of binomial nomenclature is

Plants are given Latin names because it is a

Scientific name of Mango plant is Mangifera indica (Linn.) Santapau. In the above name “Santapau” refers to