Organisms and Populations

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1. Under a particular set of selection pressures, 7. Parasites evolved special adaptations in accordance
organisms evolve towards the most efficient: with their lifestyles choose the odd one out with respect
1. Thermoregulation to these adaptations
2. Water conservation 1. High reproductive capacity
3. Respiration 2. Simple life cycle and complex morphological,
4. Reproduction strategy anatomical features
3. Loss of unnecessary sense organs
2. The logistic growth curve of animal population 4. Loss of the digestive system
growth is more realistic than J shaped curve because:
1. Asexual mode of reproduction is rare in higher 8. Natality refers to
animals 1. Number of individuals leaving the habitat
2. Resources are finite and become limiting sooner or 2. Birth rate
later. 3. Death rate
3. Most animals are conformers rather than regulators 4. Number of individuals entering a habitat
4. Abiotic factors affect animals more than plants
9. Autecology is the:
3. If in a hypothetical case, you remove a predator from Relation of heterogeneous populations to their
an ecosystem and as a result few prey species get 1. environment
extinct. What does it show 2. Relation of an individual to its environment
1. Interspecific competition
3. Relation of a community to its environment
2. Intraspecific competition
3. Parasitism 4. Relation of a biome to its environment
4. Commensalism
4. Endoparasites have a complex life cycle 10. Biosphere is:

1. Because of extreme morphological adaptations 1. A component in the ecosystem
2. Because of extreme specialization. 2. Composed of the plants present in the soil
3. Because of extreme anatomical adaptation 3. Life in the outer space
4. Because of less reproductive potential Composed of all living organisms present on earth
4.
which interact with the physical environment
5. In Brood Parasitism which of the two birds are
involved?
1. Cuckoo and Parrot
11.
2. Parrot and Crow
Niche is:
3. Crow and Cuckoo
4. Cuckoo and Eagle All the biological factors in the organism
1.
environment
6. Sexual deceit is 2. The physical space where an organism lives
1. All orchid employ it The range of temperature that the organism needs to
3.
2. Leaf resembles female bees in color size and live
markings The functional role played by the organism where it
3. Male bee pseudocopulation the leaf 4.
lives
4. This male takes away pollen with itself and then goes
to another flower for pseudocopulation will shed
pollens there 12. Formation of tropical forests needs mean annual
temperature and mean annual precipitation as:
1. 18 – 25oC and 150 - 400cm
2. 5 – 15oC and 50 – 100 cm
3. 30 – 50oC and 100 – 150cm
4. 5 – 15oC and 100 – 200 cm
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13. Match the following (column l with column ll) 17. Given below are two population pyramids, both of
Column l Column ll India, one for year 2000 and another for year 2020:
(Population interaction) (Example)
a Commensalism i Presence of lice among
hairs of human
b Parasitism ii Mycorrhizae
c Mutualism iii Barnacles growing on
the back of whale
d Predation iv Prickly pear cactus and
Cactoblastis
1. a(iii), b(ii), c(i), d(iv)
2. a(iv), b(i), c(ii), d(iii)
3. a(iv), b(ii), (i), d(iii)
4. a(iii), b(i), c(ii), d(iv)
14. Consider the given two statements:

I. In the case of J–shaped growth form, the population
grows exponentially, and after attaining the peak 1. Pyramid A is of 2020 as it has a broader base
value, the population may abruptly crash. Pyramid B is of 2000 as it has more females in the
2.
II. The exponential growth can not be sustained younger age groups
infinitely because not only the environment is ever Pyramid B is of 2020 as it has more females in the
3.
changing, food, and space are also limited. younger age groups
(1) Both I and II are correct and II explains I 4. Pyramid A is of 2000 as it has a broader base
(2) Both I and II are correct but II does not explain I
(3) I is correct but II is incorrect
(4) I is incorrect but II is correct 18.
Competition can be avoided even if two
15. Identify the incorrectly matched row: Assertion:
species compete for the same resource
Species A Species B Name of interaction The competition species can partition their
1. + 0 Commensalism Reason:
resources to avoid competition
2. + - Predation
3. + + Mutualism Both assertion and reason are true and the reason is
1.
4. - - Amensalism the correct explanation of the assertion
Both assertion and reason are true but the reason is
2.
not the correct explanation of the assertion
16. Assertion (A): Among red, green and brown algae, 3. Assertion is false but reason is true
the red algae are found in the deepest ocean. 4. Assertion is true but reason is false
Reason (R): Red algae possess phycobilins, which can
absorb the blue and green light that penetrates the
deepest water.
19. If N is the population size, r is the intrinsic growth
1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct
rate, K is the carrying capacity of the local environment,
explanation of (A)
and dN/dt is the rate of change in population with time,
2. Both (A) and (R)are true but (R) is not the correct
then the Verhulst-Pearl Logistic growth equation is
explanation of (A)
correctly written as:
3. (A)is true but (R) is false
4. Both (A) and (R) are false 1. dN/dt = rN[1- N/K] 2. dN/dt = rN[1- K/N]
3. dN/dt = rN + [1- N/K] 4. dN/dt = rN + [1- K/N]
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20. Select correct combinations 23. In the given figure, I, B, D and E stand for:
A. Water Potential = Solute Potential + Pressure
Potential
B. Respiratory quotient (RQ) = Volume of
CO2 evolved/Volume of consumed CO2
C. DNA mRNA
protein
D. Population density at time Nt+1=Nt+[(B+I)-(D+E)]
E. GPP - R =NPP (Net Primary Productivity)
Choose the correct answer from the options given
below:
1. A, B, C only
2. C, D, E only
3. A, D, E only
4. A, C, E only
I B D E
21. Two butterfly species are competing for the same 1. Emigration Natality Mortality Immigration
nectar of a flower in a garden. To survive and coexist
together, they may avoid competition in the same garden 2. Emigration Mortality Natality Immigration
by: 3. Immigration Natality Mortality Emigration
1. feeding at the same time. 4. Immigration Mortality Natality Emigration
2. choosing different foraging patterns.
3. increasing time spent on attacking each other.
4. predating on each other. 24. The given picture shows cattle egret and the cattle in
close association. This is an example of:
22. Identify the correct statements:
Ramdeo Misra is revered as the Father of Ecology
I.
in India.
Ecology studies the interactions among organisms
II. and between the organism and its physical [abiotic]
environment.
The study of Ecology begins at cellular biological
III.
organisation level.
Ecology at the organism level is essentially
IV.
physiological ecology.
1. Only I and II 2. All except III
3. Only II, III and III 4. I, II, III and IV
1. Competition 2. Commensalism
3. Mutualism 4. Parasitism
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25. Assertion(A): Plants are more affected by their 29. Assertion(A): Competition is defined as a process
predators compared to animals. where the fitness of one species gets lower down due to
Reason(R): Plants cannot run away from their predators the presence of another species.
while animals can. Reason(R): An increase in the r-value of one species in
Choices for Assertions and reasons: the presence of another species represents competition.
1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct 1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct
explanation of (A). explanation of (A).
2. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct 2. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct
explanation of (A). explanation of (A).
3. (A) is true, but (R) is false. 3. (A) is true, but (R) is false.
4. (A) is false, but (R) is true. 4. (A) is false, but (R) is true.
26. Assertion(A): The life cycles of endoparasites are 30. If the population pyramid of an associated
more complex. population has an extremely broad base, it is:
Reason(R): Endoparasites have very less specialization. 1. a rapidly expanding population
Choices for Assertions and reasons: 2. a stable population
1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct 3. a population where there were more old individuals
explanation of (A). than young individuals
2. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct 4. a population with more males than females
explanation of (A).
3. (A) is true, but (R) is false.
4. (A) is false, but (R) is true.
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27. Assertion(A): Egrets always forage close to cattle.
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Choices for Assertions and reasons:
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explanation of (A).
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28. Assertion(A): Predation is more severe for plants. days of ANY NEETprep
Reason(R): They cannot run away from their predators.
1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct course
explanation of (A).
2. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct
explanation of (A).
4. (A) is false, but (R) is true.
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