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Faculty Recruitment Test (Biology)

Comprehensive assessment covering plant physiology, animal biology, genetics, and evolution for biology faculty recruitment

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following elements is useful in seed germination?

  1. Iron
  2. Boron
  3. Magnesium
  4. Zinc
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Why is dark reaction in photosynthesis called so?

  1. As it can occur in the dark
  2. As it does not require direct light
  3. As it cannot occur during daytime
  4. As it occurs more rapidly at night
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Deficiency of which element causes premature leaf-fall in plants?

  1. Potassium
  2. Sodium
  3. Phosphorus
  4. Zinc
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is defined as hydroponics?

  1. Growing of aquatic plants
  2. Growing of floating aquatic plants
  3. Soil-less cultivation of plants
  4. Cultivation of plants in water and air
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Flesh of a fruit is mostly made up of which of the following tissues?

  1. Parenchyma
  2. Collenchyma
  3. Sclerids
  4. Meristem
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following are characteristic features of smooth muscle fibres?

  1. Spindle-shaped, unbranched, unstriated, uninucleated and involuntary
  2. Spindle-shaped, unbranched, unstriated, multinucleated and involuntary
  3. Cylindrical, unbranched, unstriated, multinucleated and voluntary
  4. Cylindrical, branched, striated, multinucleated and voluntary
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What do you call the amount of air that moves in and out of the lungs, with each normal inspiration and expiration?

  1. Residual volume
  2. Vital capacity
  3. Tidal volume
  4. Tidal capacity
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Why do mammalian lungs have numerous alveoli?

  1. For increasing volume of inspired air
  2. For keeping the lungs in proper shape and position
  3. For higher number of muscles to provide greater elasticity
  4. For increasing surface area for gaseous diffusion
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

  1. Blood transports CO2 comparatively easily because of its high solubility.
  2. CO2 diffuses into blood, passes into RBCs and reacts with water to form H2CO3.
  3. Oxyhaemoglobin of erythrocytes is basic in nature.
  4. Chloride ions diffuse from plasma into erythrocytes to maintain ionic balance.
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following correctly defines the ascent of sap?

  1. Upward movement of water in plants
  2. Bidirectional movement of minerals in plants
  3. Translocation of organic food in plants
  4. Downward movement of organic food in plants
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Tropic movements occur as a result of

  1. multidirectional effect of environmental factors on plant organs
  2. unidirectional effect of environmental factors on the plant organs
  3. bidirectional effect of environmental factors on plant organs
  4. senescence of plant organs
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What do you call the plant movement in response to diffused stimulus of light?

  1. Phototropism
  2. Photolysis
  3. Phototaxis
  4. Photonasty
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following hormones promotes inter-nodal elongation?

  1. Auxin
  2. Gibberellic acid
  3. Cytokinin
  4. Abscisic acid
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is an example of conditioned reflex?

  1. Withdrawal of hand on touching a hot surface
  2. Salivation on seeing/smelling food
  3. Sneezing during cold weather
  4. Running indoors on arrival of rain
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Motor neuron of reflex arc carries impulse from

  1. receptor to central nervous system
  2. central nervous system to effectors
  3. central nervous system to receptors
  4. effectors to central nervous system
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Why is transmission of nerve impulse unidirectional?

  1. As the nerve fibre is insulated by medullary sheath
  2. As the sodium pump starts from cyton and proceeds to axonal end
  3. As the neurotransmitter is released only at dendrite ends
  4. As the neurotransmitter is released only at axon ends
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following correctly defines parthenogenesis?

  1. Development of embryo without fertilisation
  2. Development of embryo from egg without fertilisation
  3. Development of seeds from embryo
  4. Development of fruit with embryo formation
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How does a pollen tube usually enter the embryo sac?

  1. Through one of the synergids
  2. By directly penetrating the egg
  3. Between one synergid and central cell
  4. By knocking of antipodal cells
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Roots of which of the following plants are used in vegetative propagation?

  1. Ginger
  2. Chrysanthemum
  3. Sweet potato
  4. Potato
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following correctly defines 'Species'?

  1. Group of individuals in a geographical area
  2. Population of one type
  3. Population of individuals with similar genotypic and phenotypic traits
  4. Population of interbreeding individuals
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In three kingdom classification, organisms like yeasts and rhizopus are included in which of the following kingdoms?

  1. Fungi
  2. Protista
  3. Animalia
  4. Plantae
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What do you call the technique of selecting plants with superior phenotype for further propagation?

  1. Mass selection
  2. Pure line selection
  3. Acclimatisation
  4. Cloning
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What do you call the crossing that involves plants of the same variety?

  1. Intravarietal hybridisation
  2. Interspecific hybridisation
  3. Intervarietal hybridisation
  4. Intrageneric hybridisation
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following correctly defines 'Abiogenesis'?

  1. Life originates spontaneously from inorganic matter
  2. Life originates from pre-existing life
  3. Life originates by the super natural powers
  4. Life originates by chemical evolution
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which organs are represented by hands of man, wings of bat and flippers of seal?

  1. Vestigial organs
  2. Analogous organs
  3. Evolutionary organs
  4. Homologous organs
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