Biology (AIPMT)

Objective type biology questions covering genetics, botany, zoology, and ecology for AIPMT preparation

14 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which type of biodiversity tends to be the highest near the equator?

  1. Genetic biodiversity
  2. Terrestrial biodiversity
  3. Species biodiversity
  4. Ecosystem biodiversity
  5. Community biodiversity
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the phenomenon in which an organism escapes by resembling others.

  1. Adaptation
  2. Homology
  3. Analogy
  4. Mimicry
  5. Darwinism
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The study of terrestrial animals in other arthropod groups is known as

  1. pedology
  2. geology
  3. pathology
  4. hydrology
  5. entomology
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In RNA, thymine is replaced by which one of the following base pairs?

  1. Adenine
  2. Guanine
  3. Uracil
  4. Thymine
  5. DNA
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In 1961, the two French microbiologists Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod at Pasteur Institute, Paris proposed a mechanism called

  1. One gene-one enzyme hypothesis
  2. Operon hypothesis
  3. Central dogma reverse
  4. Genomics
  5. Semiconservative hypothesis
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Sansevieria is an example of

  1. cuttings
  2. layering
  3. air layering
  4. mound layering
  5. grafting
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians is

  1. herpetology
  2. saurology
  3. ornithology
  4. palaeontology
  5. mammalogy
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the life span of Sequoia (Redwood tree)?

  1. 3000 - 4000 years
  2. 2000 - 3000 years
  3. 500 years
  4. 11,300 years
  5. 200 years
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The type of fertilisation that occur in frogs is known as

  1. exogamy
  2. endogamy
  3. anisogamy
  4. isogamy
  5. polygamy
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When both stock and scion are cut obliquely at about the same angle, it is called

  1. crown grafting
  2. whip grafting
  3. wedge grafting
  4. side grafting
  5. bud grafting
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The phenomenon in which an orchid resembles to a female insect to pollinate itself is known as

  1. mimicry
  2. parthenogenesis
  3. self pollination
  4. cross pollination
  5. pseudocopulation
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Saprolegnia is an example of

  1. sporangiospores
  2. chlamydospores
  3. zoospores
  4. oidia
  5. conidia
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is known as four o'clock plant?

  1. Ginkgo bilbo
  2. Dalbergia sissoo
  3. Pinus longifolia
  4. Mirabilis jalapa
  5. Bellis perennis
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which of the following phenomenon a flower creates some mechanical barrier on their stigmatic surface to avoid self pollination?

  1. Dichogamy
  2. Self incompatibility
  3. Herkogamy
  4. Dioecism
  5. Heterostyly