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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 biology animal world oviparous and viviparous diversity and classification in animals adaptations in animals

Desert lizard is an example of:

  1. Regulator

  2. Conformer

  3. Behavioral regulator

  4. Partial regulator

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

Regulators are those animals that can regulate their body temperature by their own, according to the environment and their need while conformers are those animals that cannot regulate their body temperature and require sun to increase their body temperature. The conformers are also called cold-blooded animals. Some of the examples of conformers are desert lizards, fishes, snakes etc.

So, the correct option is 'Conformer'.

Multiple choice evs likes and dislikes genetics terminology similarities and dissimilarities in organisms features of human body and sign language

What is/are the main difference between human and animal?

  1. Height

  2. Weight

  3. Brain

  4. All of above

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
  • The main difference between animals and humans is the brain.
  • The main function of the brain is to think and to decide what is right and what is wrong. 
  • This is the only difference by which humans can think and take decisions.
    Hence, the correct answer is C.
Multiple choice evs likes and dislikes genetics terminology similarities and dissimilarities in organisms features of human body and sign language

Which of the following human features can be same?

  1. Height

  2. Weight

  3. A and B

  4. None of the above

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

  • BMI takes into account both height and weight but not body composition.
  • Body mass index (BMI) is a common tool for deciding whether a person has an appropriate body weight.
  •  Human height and weight varies greatly between individuals and across populations for a variety of complex biological, genetic, and environmental factors, among others and can be same across the population sometimes. Hence, Height and Weight are human features that can be the same.
So, the correct answer is 'A and B'.


Multiple choice bio-chemistry structure and function of cell organelles microbodies living organisms and energy production single membrane bound organelles

Recent researches suggest that peroxisomes have ............ origin.

  1. Cyanobacterial

  2. Fusobacterial

  3. Proteobacterial

  4. Actinobacterial.

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

Recent research into the evolutionary origin of peroxisomes suggests they may have evolved from an endosymbiotic relationship with actinobacteria.

Multiple choice zoology meaning of life level of biological organization in animals introduction to tissues basics of ecology

Amoeba, Hydra, Jellyfish, plants and animals; all are living things so by definition they are

  1. Organisms

  2. Tissues

  3. Organelles

  4. Organs

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

A.An organism is an individual living thing. It can be as simple as a single-celled Amoeba or it can be as complex as a human being.
B.A tissue is a collection of structurally similar cells acting together to perform a specific function.
C.An organelle is a small constituent of a cell that has a specific function. For example, mitochondria (called as powerhouse of the cell) aids in generating energy for cell functions.
D.An organ is a group of tissues that performs a specific function. For example, stomach and kidney are organs. 

So, the correct option is 'organism'.

Multiple choice biology chemical messages for homeostasis hypothalamus nervous and endocrine system in humans coordination in human beings- chemical control

Which is not an example of homologous structure

  1. Heterodont teeth in mammals

  2. different types of vertebrates

  3. Both

  4. None

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

Heterodont teeth and different types of vertebrates are examples of homologous structures. The structure which are different in appearance and perform different functions but have similar structure and developmental origin are called homologous organs.

Multiple choice biology evolution of life darwinism or theories of natural selection darwin's theory of evolution theories of evolution

Original features of Darwin's finches in Galapagos islands were adapted for :

  1. Flesh eating

  2. Insect eating

  3. Fish eating

  4. Honey collecting

  5. Seed eating

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

The small black birds found on Galapagos islands, which later came to be known as Darwin's finches were originally adapted with seed-eating features. From these many other forms evolved with altered beaks depending on the food habit. This enabled them to become insectivorous and vegetarian finches.

So, the correct answer is 'Seed eating'

Multiple choice biology evolution of life darwinism or theories of natural selection darwin's theory of evolution theories of evolution

Choose the correct answers from the alternatives given.
Darwin believed that a giraffe has a long neck because

  1. God designed it that way

  2. catastrophes eliminated short-necked forms

  3. its ancestors stretched their necks to get food

  4. ancestral giraffes with slightly longer necks got more food than others and left more surviving offspring

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

According to Darwin theory, there is both long and short neck giraffe due variation in the population. when there is a shortage of short tree leaves, short neck giraffe died and long neck giraffe survive.

Hence, the correct answer is 'ancestral giraffes with slightly longer necks got more food than others and left more surviving offspring'

Multiple choice
  1. Colour of their fur

  2. Their mane

  3. Length of their tail

  4. Their roar

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

Male lions are distinctively characterized by their large manes, which females lack. Other physical traits like fur color or tail length are not primary sexual dimorphic indicators.