Neet Top Ranker questions of Living world for sure Selection

Living world Selected Questions DPP for NEET (NEET Plus)

1. Mark the incorrect statement w.r.t. taxonomic aids.

(a) Keys are based on the contrasting characters, generally in a pair, called couplet.

(b) Monographs contain informations of all the taxa of an area in a book.

(c) Museums have collections of preserved plant and animal specimens for study.

(d) Manuals are useful in providing informations for identification of names of species found in an area.

2. The study of biological diversity and evolutionary relationships between organisms is most accurately referred to as

(a) Taxonomy 

(b) Biodiversity 

(c) Evolution 

(d) Systematics

3. ________ is the basic requirement to place organisms in various categories and it helps in identifying similarities and dissimilarities among the individuals of the same kind of organisms as well as other kinds 

of organisms.

(a) Characterization 

(b) Identification 

(c) Taxonomic hierarchy 

(d) Nomenclature

4. Consider the given statements and choose the correct option.

I. Properties of tissues are present in the constituent cell and arise as a result of interactions among them.

II. Properties of cellular organelles are present in the molecular constituents of the organelles and arise as 

a result of interactions among them.

III. Living organisms are system capable of responding to external stimuli.

Options:

(a) I, II & III are correct 

(b) I and II are correct 

(c) Only II is correct 

(d) Only III is correct

5. Which of the following is not correct for order?

(a) General order and other higher taxonomic categories are identified based on the aggregates of 

characters.

(b) Plant families like convolvulaceae, solanaceae are included in the order polymoniales, mainly based on 

the evolutionary characters.

(c) Name of order ends with –ales.

(d) Order is the assemblage of families which exhibit a few similar character.

6. Plants respond to external factors like light, water, temperature etc. This is due to a technically complicated 

feature of plants, which is know as

(a) Reproduction 

(b) Consciousness 

(c) Metabolism 

(d) Growth Response

7. Which of the following statement is not correct ?

(a) At lower taxonomic level more organisms are present and at higher level less organisms are present.

(b) Number of common characters keeps on decreasing as we move up invtaxonomic hierarchy.

(c) All organisms, including those in the plant and animal kingdoms have species as the lowest category.

(d) Each category in taxonomic hierarchy referred to as a unit of classification.

8. Which among the following taxonomic aids contains the actual account of habitat and distribution of plants 

of a given area?

(a) Monograph 

(b) Flora 

(c) Key 

(d) Catalogs

9. Which among the following is a taxon ?

(a) Species 

(b) Class 

(c) Phylum 

(d) Mammalia

10. Related genera belong to same category named as

(a) Variety 

(b) Family 

(c) Order 

(d) Division