ANUPAMA’S BIOLOGY CLASSES ORGANISMS AND POPULATIONS MCQ TEST – 2 Ph.

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Q1) If a population of 50 paramecium present in a pool increases to 150 after an hour what would be the growth rate of population?
(a) 50 per hour (b) 200 per hour (c) 5 per hour (d) 100 per hour
Q2) What would be the percent growth or birth rate per individual per hour for the same population mentioned in the previous question
(question 1)? (a) 100 (b) 200 (c) 50 (d) 150
Q3) A population has more young individuals compared to the older individuals. What would be the status of the population after some years?
(a) it will decline (b) it will stabilize. (c) it will increase. (d) it will first decline and then stabilize.
Q4) What parameters are used for tiger census in our country’s national parks and sanctuaries?
(a) pug marks only (b) pug marks and faecal pellets (c) faecal pellets only (d) actual head counts
Q5) Which of the following would necessarily decreases the density of a population in a given habitat?
(a) natality > mortality (b) immigration > emigration (c) mortality and emigration (d) natality and immigration
Q6) A protozoan reproduces by binary fission. What will be the number of protozoans in its population after six generations? (a)
128 (b) 24 (c) 64 (d) 32
Q7) Amensalism is an association between two species where
(a) one species is harmed and other is benefitted (b) one species is harmed and other is unaffected (c) one species is benefitted and other
is unaffected (d) both the species are harmed
Q8) Lichens are the associations of
(a) bacteria and fungus (b) algae and bacterium (c) fungus and algae (d) fungus and virus.
Q9) Asymptote in a logistic growth curve is obtained when
(a) K = N (b) K > N (c) K > N (d) the value of ‘r’ approaches zero
𝑑𝑁 𝐾−𝑁
Q10) In the equation what K denotes? = 𝑟𝑁 ( )
𝑑𝑡 𝐾
(a) population density at a time (b) intrinsic rate (c) carrying capacity (d) population density at t = 0
Q11) Verhults – pearl’ is associated with the equation
𝑑𝑁 𝐾−𝑁 𝑑𝑁 𝐾−𝑁 𝑑𝑁 𝐾−𝑁 𝑑𝑁 𝐾−𝑁
(a) = 𝑟𝑁 ( ) (b) = 𝑡𝑁 ( ) (c) = 𝑟𝑁 ( ) (d) = 𝑡𝑁 ( )
𝑑𝑡 𝐾 𝑑𝑡 𝑁 𝑑𝑡 𝑁 𝑑𝑡 𝐾
Q12) A decline in population size will be in the simulation
(a) natality < mortality (b) mortality < natality (c) immigration < emigration (d) emigration < immigration
𝑑𝑁 𝐾−𝑁
Q13) In the equation = 𝑟𝑁 ( ) ‘N’ denotes
𝑑𝑡 𝐾
(a) intrinsic rate of natural increases (b) population density at time t = 0 (c) population density at time t (d) carrying capacity
Q14) A biologist studied the population of rats in a barn. He found that the average natality was 250 average mortality 240, immigration 20
and emigration 30. The net increases inpopulation is (a) 05 (b) zero (c) 10 (d) 15
Q15) Which one of the following plants shows a very close relationship with a species of moth, where none of the two can complete its life
cycle without other? (a) hydrilla (b) yucca (c) banana (d) viola
Q16) Match the columns.
(a) A-(ii), B-(i), C-(iv), D-(iii) (b) A-(iii), B-(iv), C-(i), D-(ii) (c) A-(iv), B-(iii), C-(ii),
D-(i) (d) A-(i), B-(ii), C-(iii), D-(iv)
Q17) Gause’s principle of competitive exclusion states that
(a) no two species can occupy the same niche indefinitely for the same limiting
resources (b) larger organisms exclude smaller ones through competition (c)
more abundant species will exclude the less abundant species through competition
(d) competition for the same resources exclude species having different food
preferences.
Directions: In the following questions, a statement of assertion is followed by a statement of reason. Mark the correct choice as:
(a) if both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion
(b) if both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion
(c) if assertion is true but reason is false (d) if both assertion and reason are false.
Q18) Assertion: Fig and wasp cannot complete their life cycle without each other.
Reason: They show mutualistic relationship.
Q19) Assertion: Bell shaped age pyramid represents a stable population
Reason: In a stable population proportion of individuals in reproductive age group is higher than the individuals in per-reproductive age group
Q20) Assertion: The rate at which a population can be expected to grow in the future can be assessed graphically by means of a population
pyramid.
Reason: A triangular population pyramid is characteristic of a country whose population is stable, neither growing nor shrinking.
Q21) Assertion: predators maintain prey population under control.
Reason: Predators reduce the intensity of competition among competing prey species.
Q22) Assertion: Elimination of a competitively inferior species in a closely related or otherwise similar group is known as competitive exclusion
principle
Reason: If two species compete for the same resource, they could avoid competition by choosing different times for feeding or different
foraging patterns.
Q23) Assertion: External parasitism is generally marked by much more extreme specialization than internal parasitism
Reason: The structure of an internal parasite is usually very complex possessing suckers, reproductive organs, etc.
Q24) Assertion: Mycorrhizae represent a mutually beneficial interspecific interaction of fungi with roots of higher plants.
Reason: In a mutualistic relationship both the organisms enter into some sort of physiological exchange.
Q25) Assertion: Plant-animal interactions do not generally involve co-evolution of the mutualist organisms.
Reason: Evolution of the plants and animals can never go side by side.