Ques. A plant having vascular supply, producing spores but lacking seed is a
(a) Byophyte
(b) Pteridophyte
(c) Gymnosperm
(d) Angiosperm
Ques. Natural Selection Theory of Darwin is objected to, because it
(a) Stresses upon slow and small variations
(b) Stresses upon interspecific competition
(c) Explains that natural calamities take a heavy annular toll of lives
(d) Explains, adaptation of certain inherited characters
Ques. Spirogyra is a
(a) Fresh water and free floating alga
(b) Marine and free floating alga
(c) Fresh water and locomotory alga
(d) None of these
Ques. Which of the following systems in man is affected by the bite of cobra?
(a) Digestive
(b) Nervous
(c) Excretory
(d) Circulatory
Ques. Ligulate leaves are found in
(a) Mosses
(b) Selaginella
(c) Fern
(d) Pinus
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Ques. In suborder ophidia, the vertebrae are
(a) Amphicoelus
(b) Acoelus
(c) Heterocoelus
(d) Procoelus
Ques. Fern prothallus is
(a) Homothallic
(b) Heterothallic
(c) Heterotrophic
(d) eteromorphic
Ques. In which of the following taxonomy, is equal weightage given to each of thousands of characters that a taxon exhibits
(a) Classical taxonomy
(b) Chemotaxonomy
(c) Numerical taxonomy
(d) Alpha taxonomy
Ques. Who wrote the book ‘Genetics and Origin of Species‘?
(a) R.A. Fisher
(b) G.L. Stebbins
(c) Th. Dobzhaansky
(d) J.B.S. Haldane
Ques. If a botanist has to nomenclate a similar species, he will use
(a) Syntype
(b) Neotype
(c) Mesotype
(d) Isotype
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Ques. The book ‘Systema Naturae’ was written by
(a) Lamarck
(b) Linnaeus
(c) Aristotle
(d) Haeckel
Ques. The art of growing short plants is called
(a) Bonsai
(b) Horticulture
(c) Topiary
(d) Tissue culture
Ques. Polystelic stem is seen in
(a) Cycas
(b) Riccia
(c) Selaginella
(d) Funaria
Ques. Kangaroo is a member of which order
(a) Monotremata
(b) Marsupialia
(c) Prototheria
(d) Insectivora
Ques. Branch of Zoology dealing with the study of fishes is known as
(a) Herpetology
(b) Ichthyology
(c) Mammalogy
(d) Ornithology
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Ques. Cataphylls are
(a) Leaves of Selaginella
(b) Scaly leaves of Pinus
(c) Needles of Pinus
(d) Foliar leaves of Pinus
Ques. The living steady state has a self-regulatory mechanimsm which is
(a) Feedback mechanism
(b) Homeotherms
(c) Homozygous
(d) Homeostasis
Ques. Sexual reproduction in Spirogyra can be described as
(a) Morphological anisogamy and physiological isogamy
(b) Morphological as well as physiological isogamy
(c) Morphological as well as physiological anisogamy
(d) Morphological isogamy and physiological anisogamy
Ques. In coelenterates, characteristic larva is
(a) Planula
(b) Rhabiditiform
(c) Oncosphere
(d) Cysticercus
Ques. Which one of the following is a metatherian mammal
(a) Echidna
(b) Kangaroo
(c) Shrew
(d) Pangolin
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Ques. High energy phosphate bond is present in
(a) ADP
(b) Adenosine
(c) AMP
(d) Cyelic AMP
Ques. Gram –ve and +ve bacteria have cell membrane made up of
(a) Proteins and lipids
(b) Cellulose
(c) Fats
(d) Chitin
Ques. Helper virus is called
(a) Perfect phage of virus
(b) A defective phage which helps another defective phage
(c) A latent phage
(d) None of these
Ques. Which of the following is a genetic vector?
(a) Phage
(b) Plasmid
(c) Mosquito
(d) None of these
Ques. Flatworms are
(a) Acoelomates
(b) Pseudocoelomates
(c) Haemocoelomates
(d) Coelomates
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Ques. Earliest evidences of social life are attributed to
(a) Cro-Magnon man
(b) Neanderthal man
(c) Peking man
(d) Java man
Ques. Which of the following groups have one or more animals which are not pseudocoelomate?
(a) Ascaris, taenia
(b) Enterobius, wuchereria
(c) Ancylostoma, dracunculus
(d) Ascaris, ancylostoma
Ques. Funaria is attached to substratum by
(a) Roots
(b) Rhizoids
(c) Haustoria
(d) Stem
Ques. Three generations one within the other are present in the seeds of
(a) Gymnosperms
(b) Dicots
(c) Monocots
(d) All the these
Ques. Which of the following is a distinct character?
(a) Chorda dorsalis
(b) Cephalization
(c) Claws
(d) Pharyngotomy
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Ques. Two or more species occupying identical or overlapping areas are known as
(a) Sympatric species
(b) Allopatric species
(c) Sibling species
(d) Polytypic species
Ques. Prodigality of reproduction in darwinism refers to
(a) Every organism produces numerous offspring
(b) Successful organism produce numerous offspring
(c) Only a few individuals are able to reproduce
(d) Only a few individuals are able to survive
Ques. Tailed bacteriophages are
(a) Motile on surface of bacteria
(b) Non-motile
(c) Actively motile in water
(d) Motile on surface of plant leaves
Ques. Which one is a laboratory weed?
(a) Penicillium
(b) Aspergillus
(c) Neurospora
(d) Saccharomyces
Ques. Birds are evolved from
(a) Non-chordates
(b) Reptiles
(c) Amphibians
(d) Fishes
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Ques. The following is an example of saprophytes
(a) Mushroom
(b) Lichen
(c) Unicellular algae
(d) Ferns
Ques. Suctorial mouth occurs in
(a) Butterfly
(b) Taenia
(c) Leech
(d) Cockroach
Ques. Which is the vestigial organ in man?
(a) Atlas
(b) Cervical vertebra
(c) Vermiform appendix
(d) None of these
Ques. In which of the following jaws are found
(a) Herdmania
(b) Fish
(c) Petromyzon
(d) None of these
Ques. Two similar holotypes are called
(a) Mesotypes
(b) Meotypes
(c) Syntypes
(d) Isotypes
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Ques. What is the name of the book written by Aristotle?
(a) Histoire Naturella
(b) Systema Nature
(c) Historia Animalia
(d) Philosophie Zoologique
Ques. Cyanobacteria are
(a) Mosses which attack bacteria
(b) Bacteria which attack cyanophyceae
(c) Autotrophic organism with phycocyanin
(d) None of these
Ques. Primitive conditions of earth were experimentally shown by
(a) Both Urey and Miller
(b) Urey
(c) Miller
(d) None of these
Ques. Evolution means
(a) History of race
(b) Development of race
(c) History and development of race with variations
(d) Progressive development of the race
Ques. Linkage was first observed by
(a) Walter Sutton
(b) Gregor Mendel
(c) William Bateson
(d) Thomas Hunt Morgan
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Ques. Coenobium means
(a) A hollow spherical colony
(b) A group of filaments
(c) Palmelloid form
(d) None of these
Ques. The enzyme DNA polymerase was discovered by
(a) Okazaki
(b) Kornberg
(c) Watson and Crick
(d) Stahl and Meselson
Ques. “Pangenesis hypothesis” was propounded by
(a) Galton
(b) Wagner
(c) Darwin
(d) Weismann
Ques. The interspersion of various degrees of chlorosis with the normal green colour of the leaf is called
(a) Spotting
(b) Yellowing
(c) Mosaic
(d) Rosetting
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Ques. Who was the first to record EEG?
(a) Pavlov
(b) A.S. Hyman
(c) Einthoven
(d) Hans Berger
Ques. The most vital process for the existence of life on earth is
(a) Communication in animals
(b) Photosynthesis by plants
(c) Reproduction in plants and animals
(d) Respiration in animals
Ques. Amniocentesis is a technique used for
(a) Measuring size of foetus
(b) Determining sex of foetus
(c) Determining position of foetus
(d) Estimating amino acid content in the amnion
Ques. Sporophyte dependent upon gametophyte is found in
(a) Algae
(b) Fungi
(c) Bryophytes
(d) Pteridophytes
Ques. 5 Radial symmetry occurs in
(a) Fishes
(b) Molluscs
(c) Star Fishes
(d) Sponges
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Ques. Which one illustrates palaeontological evidence in favour of oraganic evolution?
(a) Duck bill platypus
(b) Pappered moth
(c) Archaeopteryx
(d) Darwin’s finches
Ques. The cell theory was proposed by
(a) Metchnikoff
(b) August Weismann
(c) Sutton and Boveri
(d) Schleiden and Schwann
Ques. Glycogen is most structurally similar to
(a) Glucose
(b) Starch
(c) Maltose
(d) Cellulose
Ques. Who first discovered fossils of ‘Ramapithecus’?
(a) Dubois
(b) R. Dart
(c) G.E. Lewis
(d) J.K. Fuhlort
Ques. The process of obtaining food by Amoeba is known as:
(a) dialysis
(b) cytokinesis
(c) phagocytosis
(d) amoebiasis
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Ques. In Bryophyta the adult plant body is
(a) Sporophyte
(b) Epiphyte
(c) Sporophyll
(d) Gametophyte
Ques. Which of the following is a saprophytic angiosperm?
(a) Cuscuta
(b) Neottia
(c) Agaricus
(d) Mango
Ques. Prototherians have evolved from
(a) Reptiles
(b) Birds
(c) Eutherians
(d) Amphibians
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Ques. Birds and mammals in geological development of earth arose in period
(a) Permian
(b) Carboniferous
(c) Jurassic
(d) Oligocene and Eocene
Ques. ‘Vestigial organs’ are those organs which are
(a) Characteristics of birds
(b) Not of much use today
(c) Helpful in locomotion
(d) Common
Ques. One of the following organisms has a saprophytic mode of nutrition. This organism is:
(a) mushroom
(b) malarial parasite
(c) leech
(d) lice
Ques. The capsid of tobacco mosiac virus (TMV) has capsomers numbering
(a) 1230
(b) 2130
(c) 2310
(d) 3120
Ques. Transfusion tissue, a modified vascular tissue is present in the leaves of
(a) Pinus
(b) Dryopteris
(c) Lycopodium
(d) Dalbergia
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Ques. Pinus male and female reproductive structures occur
(a) On different plants
(b) On same branch
(c) On different branches of the same plant
(d) None of these
Ques. Two of the following organisms have a holozoic mode of nutrition. This organisms are:
(a) Paramecium and Plasmodium
(b) Plasmodium and Parakeet
(c) Parakeet and Paramecium
(d) Paramecium and Parasite
Ques. How has the free O2 been released into the earth’s atmosphere whereas there was no free O2 at the time of origin of life?
(a) By catabolic activity of animals
(b) By photosynthetic activity
(c) By heating of the Earth
(d) None of these
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