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Multiple Choice Questions

Given below is the survivorship curve of different population.

Which type of the curve has the highest chances of senescence affecting mortality?

  • Type I

  • Type I and II

  • Type III

  • Type I, II and III


On high mountains, difficulty in breathing is due to :

  • decrease in partial pressure of O2

  • decrease in amount of O2

  • increase in CO2 conc

  • all of the above


Population means

  • all the animals of a place

  • all the animals and plants found in an area

  • human beings in an area

  • animal/plants of a species living in a specific area


Fasciola hepatica (liver fluke) infects its intermediate host and primary host at the following larval stages respectively

  • redia and miracidium

  • cercaria and redia

  • cercaria and metacercaria

  • miracidium and metacercaria


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Which of the following rule states that Avian and mammalian forms are generally of higher size in colder region as compared to warmer region'?

  • Bergmann's rule

  • Allen rule

  • Gloger rule

  • Hardy-Weinberg rule


Interbreeding population of animals is called :

  • sub-species

  • species

  • community

  • genus


Euryhaline species denotes an animal

  • without osmoregulation

  • which lives in saline water

  • which has a wide range of saline tolerance

  • which has a wide range of temperature tolerance


The resting state of reptiles in winter is

  • hibernation

  • aestivation

  • diapause

  • moulting


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Mutualism is found in

  • hermit crab and sea anemone

  • ox pecker and rhinoceros

  • zoochlorellae and Hydra

  • E.coli and man


Assertion : Lateral line system is found in fishes and aquatic larval amphibians.

Reason : Lateral line system has receptors which are the clusters of sensory cells derived from ectoderm.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

  • If both the assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both the assertion and reason are false.


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