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Questions with answers-Behaviour
Grade 12 Biology

DIRECTION: CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWER FROM THE ALTERNATIVES GIVEN.

1. Which one of the following definition best defines behavior?
A. Behavior is the observable response a person makes to any situation.
B. Behavior is the way a person behaves towards other people.
C. Behavior is the actions or reactions of a person or animal in response to external or internal
stimuli.
D. Behavior is the coordinated response of an organism to an internal or external stimulus.
2. …………………….is a change in the external or internal environment of an organism.
A. Receptor
B. Effector
C. Stimulus
D. Coordinator
3. Which one of the following is the correct pathway in nervous coordination?
A. Stimulus Coordinator Receptor Effector Response
B. Stimulus Receptor Coordinator Effector Response
C. Stimulus Effector Response Coordinator Receptor
D. Stimulus Receptor Coordinator Response Effector
4. One of the following is a non-directional response to a stimulus.
A. Kinesis
B. Taxis
C. Geotropism
D. Phototropism
5. The tendency for parts of plants to grow away from light is …………….
A. Positive phototropism
B. Negative geotropism
C. Negative phototropism
D. Negative chemotropism
6. Which one of the following is true about auxins?
A. Auxins are plant growth substances
B. Auxins are produced in the shoot tip in response to light
C. Auxins stimulate the shoot cells to divide and enlarge
D. All the above
7. The response made by plants to gravity is called ……………………
A. Phototropism
B. Gravitropism
C. Chemotropism
D. Hydrotropism
8. Which one of the following statements is NOT true?
A. A receptor is any part of an organism that produces a response
B. Plant roots are positively gravitropic
C. Plants shoots are negatively gravitropic
D. Auxins are hormones that help to produce the phototropic response

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9. All the following statements are correct about how simple animals respond to stimuli except……….
A. Positive taxis is the response made by simple animals towards the greatest intensity of the
stimulus
B. Negative taxis is the response made by simple animals away from the greatest intensity of the
stimulus
C. Kinesis is a type of response made by simple animals where a change in the intensity of the
stimulus brings about a change in the rate of movement
D. Kinesis is a type of response made by simple animals where a change in the intensity of the
stimulus brings about a change in the direction of movement
10. The study of animal behavior is called………………...
A. Neuroscience
B. Neuroethology
C. Ethology
D. Neural pathway
11. ………………….is the study of how behaviour is linked to neural pathways.
A. Neuroscience
B. Neuroethology
C. Ethology
D. Neural pathway
12. Which one of the following is Not a type of innate behavior?
A. Learned behavior
B. Reflex actions
C. Kineses and taxes
D. Instinctive behavior
13. Which of the following is the simplest of the innate behaviours?
A. Orientational
B. Instinctive behaviours
C. Reflex actions
D. Kineses and taxes
14. Which type of innate behaviour involves the most complex behaviours?
A. Orientational
B. Reflex actions
C. Kineses and taxes
D. Instinctive behaviour
15. ………………….is the predetermined behaviour or behaviours produced as a response to a key
stimulus.
A. Key stimulus
B. Fixed action pattern
C. Innate behaviour
D. Learned behaviours
16. The stimulus that triggers a fixed action pattern response is known as ……………...
A. Key stimulus
B. Reflex action
C. Stimulus
D. Orientational
17. Which one of the following innate behaviours is Orientational?
A. The withdrawal of your hand from a hot object
B. The blinking of the eye
C. Nest-building
D. The kinesis of woodlice

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18. Which of the following is a more complex reflex reaction?
A. Blinking
B. Sneezing
C. Knee jerk
D. Salivation on sight of food
19. Reflex arcs comprise ……………….
A. Sensory neuron
B. Inter-neuron
C. Motor neuron
D. All the above
20. Which one of the following is correct about instinctive behaviour patterns?
A. They are not common to all members of a species
B. There is no a key stimulus that triggers the behavior
C. They are mediated by an innate releasing mechanism and a fixed action pattern
D. They are not adaptive
21. Human reflex actions that involve special sense organs and produce a response by a muscle is
called……….
A. Autonomic reflexes
B. Somatic reflexes
C. Knee jerk
D. Fixed action pattern
22. Human reflex actions that involve sensors in internal organs and produce responses also in internal
organs are called ………………...
A. Autonomic reflexes
B. Somatic reflexes
C. Fixed action pattern
D. None of the above
23. Which of the following is instinctive?
A. Caring for offspring
B. Habituation
C. Operant conditioning
D. Associative behaviour
24. The part of the nervous system which integrates information from receptors in internal organs and
produces responses in the same or other organs or glands is referred to as ………………..
A. The central nervous system
B. The peripheral nervous system
C. The autonomic nervous system
D. The somatic nervous system
25. The part of the nervous system which integrates information from special senses to produce
responses in skeletal muscles is known as ………….
A. The central nervous system
B. The peripheral nervous system
C. The autonomic nervous system
D. The somatic nervous system
26. …………………...prepares the body for rest and repair.
A. Sympathetic nervous system
B. Autonomous nervous system
C. Parasympathetic nervous system
D. Somatic nervous system

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27. ……………………...increases cardiac output and pulmonary ventilation.
A. Sensory division
B. Sympathetic division
C. Parasympathetic division
D. Somatic division
28. Which one of the following statements is correct about rhythmic behaviours?
A. Rhythmic behaviours synchronize an animal’s activities with daily and seasonal changes in the
environment
B. Rhythmic behaviours are governed by endogenous clocks
C. Endogenous clocks require exogenous cues to keep the behaviour properly timed with the
external environment
D. All the above
29. Rhythmic behaviours are examples of ……………...
A. Convergent evolution
B. Divergent evolution
C. Adaptive radiation
D. Both convergent and divergent evolution
30. Circadian rhythms are called………………
A. Yearly rhythms
B. Daily rhythms
C. Monthly rhythms
D. Seasonal rhythms
31. Which of the following is a feature of circadian clocks?
A. Circadian clocks persist with a period of about 24 hours in the absence of environmental cues
B. Circadian clocks synchronize to a 24-hour cue
C. Circadian clocks are also called entrainment
D. All the above
32. The biological clock of mammals is found in a small area of the ……………... of the brain.
A. Thalamus
B. Cerebellum
C. Hypothalamus
D. Medulla
33. One of the following is true about the hormone melatonin?
A. It is produced by the pineal gland
B. It promotes sleepfulness
C. It controls the sleep-wake cycle
D. All the above
34. Which of the following behaviours belong to circannual rhythms?
A. Migration
B. Hibernation
C. Camouflages
D. All the above
35. Animal behavior is taken in to consideration in …………
A. Neo-Darwinism
B. Lamarckism
C. Darwinism
D. B and C

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