CBSE Class 12 - NEET - Biology - The Living World (MCQs)

Biology - The Living World

7 MCQs from previous AIPMT/NEET question papers

Q1: The living organisms can be unexceptionally distinguished from the non-living things on the basis of their ability for

(a) responsiveness to touch
(b) interaction with the environment and progressive evolution
(c) reproduction
(d) growth and movement



Q2: There is no life on the moon due to the absence of 

(a) oxygen
(b) water
(c) light
(d) temperature



Q3: Praying Mantis is the example of 

(a) warning coluration
(b) social insects
(c) camouflage
(d) Mullerian mimicry





Q4: More than 70% of world's fresh water is contained in

(a) Antartica
(b) Greenland
(c) Glaciers and Mountains
(d) Polar Ice



Q5: Biosystematics aims at

(a) the classification of organisms based on broad morphological characters
(b) delimiting various taxa of organisms and establishing their relationships
(c) classifying organisms based on their evolutionary history and establishing their phylogeny based on parameters from all fields of studies
(d) identification and arrangement of organisms on the basis of their cytological characteristics.



Q6: Homeostasis is

(a) tendency to change with change in environment
(b) tendency to resist change
(c) disturbance in regulatory control
(d) plants and animals extracts used in homeopathy



Q7: Branch of biology that studies organisms that grow in environments with certain specific germs.

(a) Mycologist
(b) Exobiologist
(c) Gnotobioticist
(d) Parasitologist



Answer:
1:(c) reproduction
2: (a) oxygen
3: (b) social insects
4: (d) Polar Ice
5: (c) classifying organisms based on their evolutionary history and establishing their phylogeny based on parameters from all fields of studies
6: (b) tendency to resist change
7: (c) Gnotobioticist