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Diversity in Living Organisms

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The diversity in living organisms deals with the classification of life forms into various kingdoms and phyla. This topic covers specific traits of bacteria, animal body cavities, and structural adaptations for survival. These fundamentals are crucial for biology sections in medical entrance and state board exams.

Animal phyla characteristicsBacteria and flagellaBiological adaptationsKingdom Animalia classificationBody cavity typesExtinct organism subphylaJawless animals identification

Diversity in Living Organisms Questions

Multiple choice softskills leadership

"Scientific name of nematode whose internal organs can be seen with naked eye"

  1. Caenorhabditis elegans

  2. Caenorhabditis Elegans

  3. CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS

  4. CAENORHABDITIS elegans
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Caenorhabditis elegans is the correct scientific name for this transparent nematode. The genus is capitalized and the species is lowercase. All-caps versions or double-capitalization violate standard biological nomenclature rules.

Multiple choice softskills communication

dorsal

  1. undeveloped

  2. weaken

  3. abundant

  4. related to back of animal
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is D because 'dorsal' specifically refers to the back side of an animal or organism. It's the anatomical term for the posterior or back surface, unlike the other options which are unrelated adjectives.

Multiple choice technology security

Welchia worm is also known as

  1. Blaster worm

  2. Nachia worm

  3. kak worm

  4. email worm
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Welchia worm (also called W32/Nachi) was a helpful worm that attempted to patch the Blaster worm vulnerability and clean infected systems. It is also known as the Nachia worm (a variant spelling). Option B is correct. Blaster was the worm it fought, kak worm was an email worm, and 'email worm' is too generic.

Multiple choice

Which of the following statements is not true?

  1. The size of prokaryotic cell is smaller than eukaryotic cell.

  2. Prokaryotic cell has a single chromosome.

  3. Cell membrane of a eukaryotic cell bears respiratory enzymes.

  4. Nucleus is bound by nuclear membrane in eukaryotic cell.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Correct Answer: Cell membrane of a eukaryotic cell bears respiratory enzymes.

Multiple choice

Find the odd one out.

  1. Virus

  2. Archaebacteria

  3. Bacteria

  4. Cyanobacteria
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Virus is a non-cellular organism. It does not show any characteristic of life until it enters a living body.

Multiple choice

The cell wall is made up of silica in

  1. diatoms

  2. radiolarians

  3. krill

  4. salp
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

These are a major group of algae. They are unicellular & producers within the food chain. They are encased within a unique cell wall made of silica called a frustule.

Multiple choice

The omnipresent algae is

  1. Parietochloris incisa

  2. Ostreococcus tauri

  3. Chara

  4. Prototheca wickerhamii
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

It is an omnipresent algae. It does not contain chlorophyll. It is mainly present in the environment and is a rare cause of infection in humans.