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THE LIVING WORLD
1. Employment of hereditary principles in the (d) dependent on the amount of oxygen in
improvement of human race is [1990] the atmosphere
(a) Euthenics (b) Eugenics 8. The most important feature of all living sys-
(c) Euphenics (d) Ethnology tems is to [2000]
2. Pedology is science of [1991] (a) utilize oxygen to generate energy
(a) earth (b) soil (b) replicate the genetic information
(c) diseases (d) pollution (c) produce gametes
(d) utilize solar energy for metabolic
3. Study of fossils is [1991]
activities
(a) Palaeontology (b) Herpetology
(c) Saurology (d) Organic evolution 9. Most abundant organic compound on earth
is [2001]
4. Glycogen is a polymer of [1998] (a) protein (b) cellulose
(a) galactose (b) glucose (c) lipids (d) steroids
(c) fructose (d) sucrose
10. Reason of diversity in living being is [2001]
5. Adenine is [1992] (a) mutation
(a) purine (b) pyrimidine (b) gradual change
(c) nucleoside (d) nucleotide (c) long term evolutionary change
6. The CO2 content by volume, in the atmos- (d) short term evolutionary change
pheric air is about [1997]
11. First life on earth was [2001]
(a) 0.0314 % (b) 0.34 %
(a) cyanobacteria
(c) 3.34 % (d) 4 %
(b) chemoheterotrophs
7. If there was no CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere (c) autotrophs
the temperature of earth’s surface would be (d) photoautotrophs
[l998]
12. What is true for photolithotrophs? [2001]
(a) higher than the present
(a) Obtain energy from radiations and
(b) less than the present
hydrogen from organic compounds
(c) the same

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(b) Obtain energy from radiations and (a) Constriction of skin blood vessels and
hydrogen from inorganic compounds contraction of skeletal muscles when it
(c) Obtain energy from organic compounds is too cold
(d) Obtain energy from inorganic com- (b) Secretion of tears after falling of sand
pounds particles into the eye
(c) Salivation of mouth at the sight of
13. There is no life on moon due to the absence
of [2002] delicious food
(d) Secretion of sweat glands and constric-
(a) O2 (b) water
tion of skin blood vessels when it is too
(c) light (d) temperature
hot
14. According to Oparin, which one of the fol-
19. Biological organization starts with [2007]
lowing was not present in the primitive at-
mosphere of the earth? [2004] (a) submicroscopic molecular level
(b) cellular level
(a) Methane (b) Oxygen
(c) organismic level
(c) Hydrogen (d) Water vapour
(d) atomic level
15. More then 70% of world’s fresh water is con-
tained in [2005] 20. The living organisms can be unexceptionally
distinguished from the non-living things on
(a) Antarctica
the basis of their ability for [2007]
(b) Greenland
(a) responsiveness to touch
(c) Glaciers and Mountains
(b) interaction with the environment and
(d) Polar ice
progressive evolution
16. Carbohydrates, the most abundant bio-mol- (c) reproduction
ecules on earth, are produced by [2005] (d) growth and movement
(a) all bacteria, fungi and algae
21. Which one of the following aspects is an ex-
(b) fungi, algae and green plant cells clusive characteristic of living things ?
(c) some bacteria, algae and green plant cells [Mains 2011]
(d) viruses, fungi and bacteria (a) Increase in mass by accumulation of
17. Which one of the following is not a living material both on surface as well as
fossil? [2006] internally.
(a) King crab (b) Sphenodon (b) Isolated metabolic reactions occur in
(c) Archaeopteryx (d) Peripatus vitro.
(c) Increase in mass from inside only
18. Which one of the following is an example of
(d) Perception of events happening in the
negative feedback loop in humans? [2007]
environment and their memory.

Answers
1 -b 2 -b 3 -a 4 -b 5 -a 6 -a 7 -b 8 -b 9 -b 10 -c
11 -b 12 -b 13 -b 14 -b 15 -d 16 -c 17 -c 18 -a 19 -d 20 -c
21 -c