Q1.Stage of a bacterial growth just after inoculation will be:
Answer : Option BExplaination / Solution:
Leg phase of growth is initial stage of growth during which growth takes place slowly. Bacterial growth just after addition into nutrient medium occurs slowly. So, it is in leg phase of growth.
Q2.The statistical study of human population is called
Answer : Option BExplaination / Solution:
The statistical study of human population in a particular area that changes over time or space is called demography. It includes size, growth, density, distribution and vital statistics.
Answer : Option AExplaination / Solution:
Adipose tissues in whales and dolphins help in thermoregulation. Adipose tissue stores fats that help maintaining temperature of the body. Fat acts as insulator that maintains constant temperature of the body.
Answer : Option AExplaination / Solution:
A number of species living in a particular area makes the population. Different population of a ecosystem forms community and communities in a geographical area are called biome.
column I (i) Migrate (ii) Suspend (iii) Regulate (iv) Conform
Column II (a) hibernation and aestivation (b) sweat it out (c) inability to maintain a constant internal environment (d) people going from Rajasthan to Kashmir during summer
Answer : Option DExplaination / Solution:
People going from Rajasthan to Kashmir during summer is a kind of migration. During hibernation and aestivation organism suspends life proceeses to minimum levels. To regulate the body temperature sweating occurs and inability to maintain consistent internal environment is called conformation.
Q6.Exponential growth pattern in a population results into
Answer : Option DExplaination / Solution:
Exponential growth pattern in population results into j-shaped curve. During exponential growth faster growth occurs and j-shaped curve is formed when time v/s growth is drawn.
Q7.In which of the following interaction/s one species is benefitted while other is harmed?
Answer : Option DExplaination / Solution:
In predation and parasitism one species is benefitted while other is harmed. Parasite obtain food from host by harming them.
Q8.Out of the following which is not an example of parasitism?
Answer : Option DExplaination / Solution:
E.coli in human intestine obtain their food from undigested food remains and do not harm so, it is not an example of parasitism in which one organism is harmed but other is benefited.
Answer : Option AExplaination / Solution:
Age pyramids having declining population is referred as contracting pyramid or orion pyramids or Urn pyramids. This kind of pyramids is formed by population having more old aged population than young age population.
Answer : Option DExplaination / Solution:
Commensalism is interaction in which one species is benefited by other is neither benefited nor harmed. Orchids growing on mango tree do not harm the mango plants but get shelter.
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