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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.

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Diversity in Living Organisms Questions

Multiple choice
  1. Yeast

  2. Amoeba

  3. Paramoecium

  4. Plasmodium

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Yeast shows budding. Amoeba and Paramoecium shows binary fission and Plasmodium shows multiple fisson.

Multiple choice
  1. Require specific environment

  2. Hardy

  3. Sturdy

  4. Take less food

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

fact

Multiple choice
  1. Strongh teeth for tearing the skin of prey

  2. Long ears to hear movement of predators

  3. Deer are herbivores

  4. Deer live in grass lands

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Deer is a plant eating animal living in the grassland. To hear even minute noise it has long ears to protect itself from its predator, also for the same reason, it has the legs well suited to run fast. It has got the side eyes orgain to see that its predator does not catch it. Strong teeth cannot help the deer to escape predators. As it is plant eating, so it does not need to tear the skin of prey.

Multiple choice
  1. Long ears

  2. Strong teeth

  3. Fast running ability

  4. Side eyes

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Deer is a plant eating animal living in the grassland. To hear even minute noise it has long ears to protect itself from its predator, also for the same reason, it has the legs well suited to run fast. It has got the side eyes organ to see that its predator does not catch it. Strong teeth cannot help the deer to escape predators.

Multiple choice
  1. Padded feet

  2. Webbed feet

  3. Flat feet

  4. Small feet

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Frog is an animal which is both aquatic and terrestrial. To suit well towards both the environments, it has webbed feet i.e. fingers joined together so as to jump easily on the ground and move easily in water.

Multiple choice
  1. Bristles

  2. Hollow bones

  3. Slimy secretion

  4. Peristalsis

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The body of earth worm is soft as it does not have bones. It moves by the peristaltic action of muscles and affixes itself to the ground with the help of large number of tiny bristles. Also, its body secretes a slimy substances to help the movement.

Multiple choice
  1. Shell

  2. Foot

  3. Lid

  4. Bristles

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Snail is an animal which is having outer skeleton called shell or the lid. It has a foot made of strong muscles. It is a very slow moving animal with a wavy motion. Bristles is not a part of snail's body but is a body part of earth worm.

Multiple choice
  1. Foot

  2. Head

  3. Shell

  4. Back

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Snail is an animal which is with outer skeleton called shell or the lid. It has a foot made of strong muscles. It is a very slow moving animal with a wavy motion.

Multiple choice
  1. Light and hollow bones

  2. Strong shoulder bones

  3. Streamlined body

  4. Scaly body

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Birds are the living organisms which can fly in the air and walk on the ground. For this they need to have lighter bodies with light and hollow bones. For flying, they have strong shoulders bones and a streamlined body to act against air currents.

Multiple choice
  1. Legs

  2. Whole body

  3. Fins

  4. Wings

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Different organisms have different mode of movement from one place to another. E.g. fish swims in water, human beings walk, monkey jump and snake slithers to move from one place to another. Slithering is the zig-zag movement of the whole body of snake.

Multiple choice
  1. Flying

  2. Perching

  3. Swimming

  4. Crawling

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Birds are the living organisms which can fly in the air and walk on the ground. The bones of the bird hindlimbs are typical for walking and perching and the bony part of forelimbs are modified as wings.

Multiple choice
  1. Thick layer of fur.

  2. No sweating

  3. Thick layer of fat under skin

  4. Excrete large amount of urine

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Camel is well adapted to the heat of the desert. Their bodies are adapted variably to fit well over there. Deserts have scarcity of water so to conserve water, camels have long legs to stay away from the heat of the sun, they do not sweat much. They excrete less urine and almost dry dung. Thus all these characteristics of camels help in conserving water.

Multiple choice
  1. Thick fur on skin

  2. Long legs

  3. Scaly body

  4. Webbed feet

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Generally, the temperature in the mountain regions is low. So, the organisms inhabiting mountainous regions are adapted to survive well in the cold climate as they have thick fur or thick skin on the body so as to conserve the body heat and avoid heat loss to the surroundings.