2021-2022

UNIT – 1 DIVERSITY IN THE LIVING WORLD

CHAPTER- 1 The Living World
ASSIGNMENT - 1
1. What is living? List out the features which distinguish a living from non-living things.
2. (a) What is growth? How growth is related to metabolism?
(b) Plants and animals grow by mitotic cell divisions. What differences do they exhibit in their growth?
(c) Amoeba multiplies by mitotic cell division. Is this phenomenon growth or reproduction? Explain
(d) How is the growth exhibited by non-living objects different from that in living organisms?
(e) Why growth and reproduction cannot be taken as defining property of living beings?
3. How do the following organisms reproduce?
(a) Fungi (b) Planaria (c) Amoeba (d) Hydra (e) Yeast (f) Protonema of mosses (g) Bacteria
4. (a) What do you mean by the term Reproduction?
(b) In which organism’s reproduction is synonymous with growth?
(c) If a living organism does not reproduce, in which category will you place it-living or non-living?
Name two animals which do not reproduce at all.
5. Metabolism is a defining feature of all living organisms without exception. Isolated metabolic
reactions in vitro are not living things but surely living reactions. Comment.
6. Which organisms can sense and respond to their environment? How do humans sense their
environment?
7. What is a photoperiod?
8. What is the advantage of consciousness in living organisms?
9. In which conditions human beings are difficult to define as living?
10. Properties of cell organelles are not always found in the molecular constituents of cell organelles.
Justify.
11. What do you mean by the term Biodiversity? In a given habitat we have 20 plant species and 20
animal species. Should we call this as diversity or biodiversity? Justify your answer.
12. Write the two codes of nomenclature of living organisms.
13. What are the advantages of giving scientific names of the organisms?
14. Who proposed Binomial system of Nomenclature? Describe the rules of binomial nomenclature.
15. (a) Define classification. Mention the various categories of classification.
(b) Why are classification systems changing every now and then?
(c) Do you consider classification of organisms advantageous?
16. (a) Define the term genus.
(b) Name the genus that comprises lion, tiger and leopard
17. (a) Define the term species.
(d) What makes a species a basic taxonomic category?
(e) Give examples of two species, each belonging to same genera.
18. Brinjal and Potato belong to the same genus Solanum, but to two different species. What defines
them as separate species?
19. Give the scientific names (genus and species) of the following.
(a) Tiger (b) Housefly (c) Mango (d) Wheat (e) Brinjal (f) Human being
20. Define and understand the following terms
(a) Phylum (b) Class (c) Family (d) Order
21. (a) What is taxonomic hierarchy?
(b) Give a flow diagram from the lowest to the highest category for a plant and an animal.
(c) What happens to the number of individuals and no. of shared characters as we go up the
taxonomic hierarchy?
(d) How many obligate categories constitute hierarchy of categories?
22. Illustrate taxonomic hierarchy with suitable examples of a plant and an animal.
23. Explain about three domains of life.

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