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ASSIGNMENT BIOLOGY CLASS - XII CBSE

TOPIC : ORGANISMS AND POPULATIONS

SECTION - A
SINGLE CORRECT QUESTIONS [01 Mark Each]

1. Ethology is the study of 8. Soil carried by gravity is

(a) Behaviour of animals (a) Alluvial (b) Colluvial
(b) Past life of organism (c) Elluvial (d) Glacial
(c) Disease causing pathogens 9. Velamen tissue is found in
(d) None of these (a) Mesophytes (b) Epiphytes
2. Humus is (c) Hydrophytes (d) Xerophytes
(a) Dead and decayed organic matter 10. Pneumatophores are characteristic feature of
(b) Living matter (c) Fertilizers (a) Hydrilla (b) Rhizophora
(d) Living animal / plants / microbes (c) Typha (d) None of these
3. Name the famous plant ecologist 11. Factors relating to form and behaviour of the
(a) Jagdish chandra bose earth's surface are called
(b) Birbal Shani (a) Edaphic (b) Topographic
(c) Ramdeva Misra (d)Charles Darwin (c) Climatic (d) Biotic
4. Correct percentage of CO2 in atmosphere is 12. Aerenchyma is helpful in plants by
(a) 0.03 % (b) 0.3 % (c) 1 % (d) 1.1 % (a) Providing buoyancy in hydrophytes
5. In an quatic environment, microscopic animals (b) Absorption in stilt roots
and plants are collectively known as (c) Giving mechanical strength to plants
(a) Commensals (b) Herbivores (d) Giving flexibility to plants
(c) Fauna and Flora (d) Planktons 13. Plants growing in saline soil are called
6. 5th June is - (a) Xerophyte (b) Hydrophyte
(a) World Environment Day (c) Halophyte (d) Heliophyte
(b) Wold AIDS Day 14. Which one of the following is well-developed
(c) World Womens Day tissue present in hydrophytes?
(d) Worlds Polio Day (a) Aerenchyma (b) Collenchyma
7. Plants developing in dry condition are (c) Stomata (d) Root system
(a) Xerophytes (b) Mesophytes 15. Penumetophores are found in
(c) Lithophytes (d) Hydrophytes (a) Orchid (b) Piper
(c) Ficus (d) Rhizophora

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16. The term Autecology refers to study of 18. Which part of the pond ecosystem does not affect
by the temperature
(a) Plant community (b) Individual organism
(a) Epilimnion (b) Metalimnion
(c) Environment (d) Soil form
(c) Hypolimnion (d) All
17. Autoecology refers to
19. Root cap is absent in
(a) Plant ecology
(a) Mesophytes (b) Hydrophytes
(b) Animal ecology
(c) Epiphytes (d) Xerophytes
(c) Ecological study of individual species
20. Which of the following have sunken stomata
(d) Ecological study of group of species, which
is grown together (a) Nerium (b) Mangifera
(c) Hydrilla (d) Zea mays

SECTION - B
Short Answer type Question: [02 Marks Each]

1. What are the four levels of biological organisation with which ecology basically deals?
2. Differentiate between stenohaline and euryhaline organisms.
3. List four features which enable the Xeric plants to survive in the desert conditions.
4. Mention the attributes which a population has but not an individual organism.
5. Differentiate between stenothermal and eurythermal organisms.
6. What are the four ways through which the living organisms respond to abiotic factors?
7. Why do clown fish and sea anemone pair up? What is this relationship called?
8. Distinguish between ectotherms & Endotherms?
9. “Lichens are considered good examples of obligate mutualisms”. Comment?
10. Give any two examples of defense mechanism in plants against herbivory?
11. What is Brood parasitism? Give an example. What adaptation has evolved in this phenomenon?
12. An orchid plant is growing on the branch of mango tree. How do you describe this interaction
between the orchid & the mango tree?
13. State Gauss’s competitive exclusion principle?
14. What is migration? Why do animals show this phenomenon?
15. How do desert lizards maintain a fairly constant body temperature?

SECTION - C
Long Answer type Question: [03 Marks Each]
1. How does the shape of age pyramid reflect the growth status of a population?
2. Darw in showed that even a slow growing animal like elephant could reach enormous number
in absence of checks. With the help of your understanding of growth models, explain when is this
possible? Why is this notion unrealistic?
3. How will you measure population density in following cases?

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 (i) fish in a lake
(ii) tiger census in a national park
(iii) single huge banyan tree with large canopy.
4. Species facing competition might evolve mechanism that promotes coexistence rather than
exclusion. Justify this statement in light of Gause’s competitive exclusion principle, citing suitable
examples.
5. Describe the specific adaptation of xerophytes with respect to root system, stem & leaves.
6. List the important characteristics of a population & Explain?
7. Describe the specific adaptations of hydrophytes with respect to roots, stem & leaves?
8. Name & explain the bind of interaction in the following.
(i) Algae & fungi in
(ii) Head louse & humans
(iii) Hermit crab & sea anemone.
9. Mention the different defense mechanism to reduce the impact of predation?

SECTION - D
Very Long Answer Type Questions : [05 Mark Each]

1. What is altitude sickness? What its causes and symptoms? Howdoes human body try to
overcome altitude sickness?
2. Orchidflower,Ophrys co-evolves to maintain resembelance of its petal to female bee. Explain
how and why does it do so?
3. Describe the exponential growth model of a diagram along with a curve?
4. Describe the logistic growth model of population along with a suitable curve. Why is this curve
more realistic?
5. Give an example to show that completely unrelated species can also compete for same resources?
6. What is Age pyramid? What are the different types of age pyramid ?
7. Differentiate between regulators & conformers? Why do small animals do not show regulations?

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